Handsome rows of homes were well lit
until recently,
Christmas Day.
Red, blues, and greens flashing and sparkling
commercial glee and secular fantasy,
a few lone Nativity scenes. No sooner than
the Day
had past so too these lights have been swallowed
up, so soon it seems.
Oh but those scandalous few who
dare to shine on, plugging in anyway,
you know they’re likely to greet you
“Merry Christmas”
a week past the Epiphany,
and all through the “Christmas Weekdays”
that govern their calendars;
international feast days; to dine
and binge right up to the day of
the “Baptism of the Lord.”
Those non-imposing gentle lights;
proposing, softly shining luminaries
now well into the worldly workplaces
and well past the day before the first day of
Ordinary Time.
-Gary Edward Geraci
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