New Year

[ChristopherSea]

There is a lot to like about this near sonnet! Here's some observations:

New Year

Whiskey-warm and sick of New Years' Eve, 'sick with' might be more intriguing
I left the stuffed ones herded by their fires
And trudged along a path of ashen leaves
That cracked and snapped with winter’s snowy choirs. maybe delete 'and snapped' and use just 'choir' (don't worry about exact rhymes)
The ice cursed trees with bones that shook and scraped you could scrap 'scraped'
The skull-gray skies of rotting winter days something like 'dead' would pair better with 'skull-gray' than 'rotting'.
Were wan and mute of vernal song and draped
A cold lament upon my frostsick haze. these two lines are cool, but a bit overdone (almost read that as froststick, ha ha...)

The scene was gaunt and dying still
When I had turned to leave these two lines seem like filler; maybe you can make better use here
Until I heard a piercing shrill
Cry deep within the trees —

An inky crow shot out of sight
And left me frozen in the night. love these last four lines!