I really, really liked this. Every single line is such a bright and solitary image... at once so startling ("Is filled; cotton wool used to stuff a whale") and so perfect ("She unites the universe only / By smothering it"). Only one thing, "Bright hues banished to silly Spring and Summer" sounds just a tad 18th-century and stilted, and sort of clashes with the car image in the first couple of lines... While I was reading it, it sort of caught me up. Aside from that, though, brava!

My favorite line is "Flaws smoothed out by a cover-all solution." My least-favorite line is "Is filled; cotton wool used to stuff a whale."

I loved the lines "The trees bare black against the sky / Branching up like drowning coral." It is an amazing image that really speaks to me. The thing I really enjoyed the most is that this poem makes you look at winter in a totally different way.

The only thing I would change about this is the line "bright hues banished to silly Spring and Summer." It was too much of a surprise in the middle of such a serious (and really well written!) poem. I love the line about cotton stuffing a whale. Talk about imagery! I'm not sure if that is cute or gross, though... but either way I like it!