Christmas Magic

Each Christmas you dream of snow, of baubles
swathed in glittery paper, this year’s latest
novelty. You’ll soon

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learn where the secrets are kept,
how to transform them
into baubles again. This alchemy

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you give them, an enchantment
to keep them warm. They’re
dreaming of snow.

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This poem came about thanks to this exercise by Jeannine Ouellette, where she encourages writers to follow the same constraints as in Thomas Lux's absolutely magnificent poem, "A Little Tooth."

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