My sister read the recent entries of writing on five words given to me by various folks as an exercise and decided to give me five words.

She gave me "roses, devastating, fingerprint, snow, quicken".

Fingerprint, snow and roses stuck out so I started there.

Winter Fire

Snow powders the roses
defies the seasons with its thick marshmallow fingerprint.

They quicken the fire with dead legs of trees
Turn their backs

on the devastating icy wind.