Christmas 2013 at home. |
A Poem for Christmas in Port Townsend
Light blue, a wet wind
hustles heavy clouds in from the Pacific.
The sun cracks a smile,
washes our
house in gold,
yellow for
the neighbors,
a rainbow
for everyone.
Tumbling merrily, a vagabond cloud
brushes waving cedars on the ridge.
It looks like rain,
it looks
like sun,
it looks
like Spring,
like
everything all at once.
White-winged, a common gull
perches on a red brick chimney atop a black roof.
The clouds sweep by,
leap
riverlike from North Beach
to cross
the Strait
all the way
to Victoria.
Smiling sleepily, you yawn
ask from the kitchen, “Where’s the sugar?”
Pour milk over Cheerios,
pour me
another cup of coffee,
pour your
love over me,
all through
the days and nights.
Awash in light this morning,
pouring over that gull, our house, this town,
Life cracks a smile,
gives us
this Christmas,
gives us
this home,
gives us
each other.
Life cracks a smile,, letting the love pour in. Thx for the dellightful poem.
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