Set of Six for Christmas

Whatever else you do over the winter holidays, time spent eradicating barriers to newly resonating embracement* is never time wasted.

(*Playing with tinsel, or tree baubles, or anything shiny)

String and foil makes tinsel, simple

Ingredients, which the youngest

And the oldest absorb best, one

For novelty, one for resonance

This is how I learn Christmas

My mother carries a tray, she

Is in her dressing gown, smiling, a

Whole mug of bubbly chocolate each

In twists of plastic and electric

Berry sized bulbs, recollections

Accumulate, associate, illuminate

Impressionable years of imagination

The tradition with Dog is to gather all

Discarded wrapping paper into one

Cardboard box, drop in one dog treat

Say ‘Find’ and cheer on the shredding

Cat will sit in her basket knowing, turkey

Scraps are coming, soliloquising, solemn faced

On canine clowning, as though a piece of

Twitched tinsel couldn’t cause kittenish pouncing

There is bewitchment in the twitching

Glimmer of tinsel, it can eliminate weight

Of expectation, eradicate the boundaries

To newly resonating embracement