A Florida Christmas Prayer
A poem celebrating Luminaria in the Riverside Neighborhood of Jacksonville, 2025 and all previous years, and reflecting on the lessons we can learn from The Christmas Story.
Christmas
A Glorious Year
A somewhat Dickensian poem of Christmas in an uneven society, after a glorious and prosperous year for the wealthy.
Bones of Christmas
A poem for all those we miss,and those we have trouble being with during the holidays.
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 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 …