it's cherry sprigged from floor to rafter
that much is certain;
with ivory curtains
that never need washing.
...
[inspired in part, by the illustration The Ship Arrives, by Henry Justice Ford (from the Crimson Fairytale Book, Ed. Andrew Lang, Dover Publications Inc., NY) and by themes in English lyric poetry and Christmas carols.
and wholly by the One who said: "Let There Be Light"-]
in every cell there is a white dove
...
to e.e. cummings
blue-starred in the blue grass
bell floating are the flowers
...
after the school auditions for the Nutcracker ballet
here is the snow-globe where the tiny fir cones
gleam in a sugared quiet lit
...
for the Irish-Belgian poet, Martin Burke
and to all the poets of Persia and Istanbul of fabled beauty remembered
...
"In my Father's house there are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you."
-Jesus
leaving your home on the twenty-second eviction
...
[my American dream]
I saw the fleeting clouds above the Plains
in my own mind;
...
'Do I dare to eat a peach? '
-T.S. Eliot, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
to Maya Angelou and those who loved her
...
my shelves are laden with a gum-drop sufficiency
cackled the witch, anticipating.
provender of peppermint, white chocolate bark
...
there is no exceptional exception I heard the angels cry,
never in their own language when they said this-
mimicing the earth; or children dragged where
...