Out And About On Christmas Day Poem by kate williams

Out and about on Christmas Day,
'tween treat and treat and cookery feat,
'tween gorge and bloat and festivity,
For a breath and a laugh - a fresh paragraph -
And a sip of the dark,
Went we.

Out and about in gust and spray,
Through folding grey
Went we.

Past partially-curtained silent scenes
Of joy on display, lamp-lit, glitter-gay,
Mimed-out, half-seen,
Double-glazed, double-screened
In brief twilight limelight,
Went we.

Out and about in the darkening light,
Roaming the gloaming,
Harkening the hush -
That globe-rolling, breath-holding, time-goldening hush -
End-of-day, end-of-year, Christmas-dusk hush,
Went we,
Went free.

Then back for tea.