catherine daly
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Advent Calendar
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Advent Calendar
...................for Susana Gardner
every day looming
..............gloaming?
doors in the narrative Black Forest
..or flaps in sentimental landscapes:
shelters made of food, not shelter, trimmed white
trees
not passion-purple candles, but
accumulating light
counting physically, toward
a special calendar, liturgical year winding:
bedew us, bestow hope, focus
on abject bird, candy cane, winter flower
within this seasonal scene, no
on the piece of cardboard below it,
..............gloaming?
doors in the narrative Black Forest
..or flaps in sentimental landscapes:
shelters made of food, not shelter, trimmed white
trees
not passion-purple candles, but
accumulating light
counting physically, toward
a special calendar, liturgical year winding:
bedew us, bestow hope, focus
on abject bird, candy cane, winter flower
within this seasonal scene, no
on the piece of cardboard below it,
used once like a puzzle, a surprise
...............(not re-gifted)
quote withing the month, pattern
...............(not re-gifted)
quote withing the month, pattern
night and day verging midwinter
....."slant of light"
one, two, three, touching is a door, window
open to the birth
or end
....."slant of light"
one, two, three, touching is a door, window
open to the birth
or end
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Catherine Daly writes holiday poems alternate years. Two of her Christmas poems, and many of her other occasional poems, are in her most recent book, Vauxhall (Shearsman, 2008).
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