Not Today Please

Today has been cancelled,
The whole world can't be bothered,
Black birds sit like pompoms,
One startled eye on watch duty,
Curtains shiver,
Pulling tighter shut,
Trees sulk in an icy shower,
Cars mutter and cough,
The sky can barely hold herself up,
Wind whispers to the clouds,
"Do not to wake the sun"
Lawn turns over yawning,
Under stff clean sheets.

Only Manooska minds,
Caught out by the door,
Angry with magic white feathers,
Now so cold and wet.