{"id":2059,"date":"2013-11-17T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:11:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:11:53","slug":"ode-christmas-tree-grace-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/ode-christmas-tree-grace-curtis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Christmas Tree by Grace Curtis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ode to the Christmas Tree<\/h2>\n

by Grace Curtis<\/p>\n

Bathed in the act of forgetting
\nstill upright light endowed
\nupright on crutches drinking
\nonly what I give it giving<\/p>\n

all that it can a few winks
\nnow and then ball-catcher.
\nWhat other relic withstands
\nthis kind of stand-up once<\/p>\n

cut letting its light emanate
\nonly for delight like a hundred
\nstars in the night fractured
\nby its own limbs? In this chaos<\/p>\n

it is difficult to tell what’s true
\nwhat’s green what’s there
\nwhat’s to be had against
\nwhat’s to be hadn’t-hadn’t<\/p>\n

happened hadn’t been cut hadn’t
\nseeded tiny sprouts-
\nearth’s soft down. A hundred
\neyes calling out singing yes<\/p>\n

yes. They are saying yes to me with
\nwhite eyes yes to us yes to the cat
\nyes to this room yes to these gifts yes
\nto O Holy Night holy cow hollied bough<\/p>\n

glass birds and beaded eggs in springly nests
\nyes O holy tree yes.<\/p>\n

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Grace Curtis’ chapbook, The Surly Bonds of Earth was selected by Stephen Dunn as the 2010 winner of the Lettre Sauvage chapbook contest. Grace’s work has appeared in such journals as Baltimore Review, Waccamaw Literary Journal, Scythe, Reprint Poetry, Phoebe Journal and others. She works part time for The Antioch Review. Her blog is www.N2Poetry.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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