Christmastime

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” focus on a holiday time. A made a few of these into Christmas cards.

Christmas afternoon—

a drift of snow

to the hermit’s door

             (written 2000, published 2005)

Christmas concert—

      in unison

the whole chorus inhales

             (written 1993, published 1995; see “Angels We Have Heard On High”)

Christmas Eve at the mall—

mistaken for someone else

still I wave

             (written 2002, published 2008)

Christmas Eve—

Dad’s old snow

through the guest room wall

             (written 2002, published 2007)

Christmas morning

   a drift of snow

through the sun porch

             (written 1991, published 1992)

Christmas morning—

a wrought-iron railing

fringed with snow

             (written 1991, published 1993)

Christmas morning . . .

my neighbour’s brass door knocker

dusted with snow

             (written 1991, published 1993)

Christmas morning—

      the colour

of my daughter’s smile

             (written 2014, published 2024)

Christmas music—

    just fog

out the airplane window

             (written 1996, published 2003)

Christmas season—

my ballerina in the back seat

asks for the bathroom

             (written 2012, published 2021)

Christmas service—

the homeless man’s offering

more than mine

             (written 1991, published 1992)

Christmas shopping done . . .

a vee of geese

crosses the moon

             (written 1995, published 2004)

Christmas tree up

in the family room—

our raised glasses

             (written 2018, published 2022; see “No Place” rengay)

Christmas tree up—

I still the skin

back into my soup

             (written 2010, published 2018)