Christmas in the Cityby Jim Force (Nika), Michael Dylan Welch, and vincent tripi
First published in Woodnotes #23, Winter 1994, page 8–9. Written 20 December 1993, at the Toy Boat Café in San Francisco. See also “Summer in the Country,” written with Jim (and Colleen Gerrish Force) in 2011, which bookends the following rengay, eighteen years later.
Christmas in San Francisco— one in shorts another in a parka Jim
a crack in the pavement stops a strand of tinsel Michael
street-corner santa drops a coin into the beggar’s cup vincent
the fog lifts . . . St. Dominic’s bell Jim
slowing for the traffic light— a Christmas wreath on the fire truck’s grill Michael
crowded cable car: the evening star vincent
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