f/k/a . . .

   As the following dagosan poems indicate, I’m still not quite in the holiday spirit.  Maybe a few more haiku and senryu from my friends will help.  If not, I’ve still got a couple weeks.

setting up the creche –
the Baby’s name
uttered over and over

married a decade
she hides
the mistletoe

married a decade
he buys
new mistletoe

furious -
that godless salesgirl said
“Happy Holidays!”

[for Steve Bainbridge]

. . . . by dagosan/david giacalone
 

christmas morning
the old retriever gets
all the innards

christmas evening
the goose she raised
all summer

. . . . by ed markowski

Christmas pageant—                            
the one who had to get married
plays virgin Mary

another Christmas . . .
my parents visit
the son in prison

 . . . . by Lee Gurga from Fresh Scent (1998)

Christmas Day
  the exchange
    of custody

first snow…
settling into
old feelings

. . . . . by John Stevenson
“christmas Day” - from Some of the Silence
“first snow” - Upstate Dim Sum 2006/I

  Happy 80th Birthday, to Mama G!