12-24-2015, 08:44 PM
< christmas blessings >
the warm rug in the living room
when we were kids
still sits
some place in our heads
my head
and my sister's head
as she talks to me
long distance from the coast
dad
is asking us again
to guess the presents
and the tree
rises above us
as we sit on our warm rug
and forget
we're on the telephone
- - -
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions

