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Pink Ornament, Blue Holidays
Dec 19, 2022
The massive presences
of everything not there.
Even angels in blue cower
and worry their wings.
This came to me as a pink
Christmas ornament,
round and with a sprinkle
of silver glitter, trying
to be falling snow. Country
church, jutting steeple a
perfection only symbols
and rituals inscribed into
time and movement can be.
Tell me, globe, where am I?
Is it a day or a road or empty
tissue wadded in a box?
Where is it silver snow falls?
The massive presences
of everything not there.
Even angels in blue cower
and worry their wings.
