The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:10pm
A Silver Star-spark just crossed My View
as I sat at the computer screen
— passed across My Field of Vision
diagonally from left to right
trailing a dark path
alerting Me
to read
“God Has Called Them All Home”
The West Desk Window 2:45pm
Sometimes a Candy Cane
is not just a Candy Cane.
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HO HO HO is backwards.
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What can you think of that’s snowy white
& feels like a weather bomb?
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What’s an empty, limp stocking
which miraculously gets filled?
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The colour red means stop —
green means go.
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What’s a triangular fir tree
next to an open hearth —
and where does that chimney go anyway?
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A Christmas Wreath, a broken circle, represents a fertilized egg.
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A baby in a manger —
Jesus was born on the wrong side of the tracks.
Joanna Gilman Hyde 