(For Lyn, et al)

…Have occasioned

I think to have been decor-

rating The Tree, it’s

piney quills & tines  

dressing in glassy festoons

weightless baubles of

tins-led Christmas-candy

colors, like porcelain

fragile-fine, hooked canes

& dangled barber-pole-paean

peppermint-stick Memories

of savored hangon

trinkets & heirlooms

looming like a twinkling

tapestry ‘round

wreaths of snowy popped-corn

dangling - “No, darlings, that’s not

for eating…”  Yes, I

have occasioned the

rows of bubbling light-tubes

like glowing chains of

warm caterpillars

inching-on toward the Manger’s

Star of a chrysalis

Christmas Joy to Light-

Up the World!  Oh Yes, I have

occasioned The Tree

Breathing in Ecstasy…

And the Wonder, of this from

a Guy whose Imprimitur

might have been

Tannenbaum!

H.e.m.-H’H.

                         12.8.MMvi. 

 Noel.

“And so, as Tiny Tim observed, G-D bless Us, Every One!”

(Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol). And…

A “…Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!”

(Clement Clarke Moore, “Twas The Night Before Christmas”).

Amen.

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