Rumpelstiltskin
A poem invoking the fairy tale character of Rumpelstiltskin to describe the modern Christmas season and analyze what, if anything, has been lost.
Christmas
Christmas This Year (2020)
Hope the holiday season is treating you well this year. Or at least as well as can be expected, in a year where everything else seems to be going wrong. I was touched by an item in the news this week, meant for the tenderest ears, and I could not resist making a …
At Christmas
When I wrote this poem, I was contemplating how strange this Christmas season seems. How different, from all the previous Christmases. I cannot bring myself to buy a Christmas tree, to bake cookies, to play carols. I hesitate to celebrate, as if to do so might invite disaster. This pandemic came thick upon the …