Januarily

Are you garnet 
or Janus? How many
faces make another 
round appropriately
profound? Numbers
change and if the
hemisphere faces
from the sun's facets,
numbness attends the
tips of every digit. It's
a long month, from the
first to thirsty deserts,
frozen recently, cold
burning as a yellower 
flame. Arbitrariness
is our prerequisite,
and some would say
the way we got this
word and its language
bed; whether the mark
is random or planned,
reflection makes refraction
as observer makes observed.