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home for Christmas: Christmas Eve \u2013 … by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Michael Dylan Welch<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>home for Christmas<\/span><\/a>” – from Open Window<\/em> – “<\/span>Christmas Eve<\/span><\/a>” – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (Sept. 2005)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n …. by ed markowski<\/p>\n married a decade \n \n married a decade \n \n wrapping and packing \u2013 … by dagosan<\/em><\/p>\n Christmas pageant\u2014 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) orig, photo-poem home for Christmas: my childhood desk drawer empty Christmas Eve \u2013 bits of a price sticker stuck on my finger … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-16U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12871,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/12\/welchsantagray.gif\")
<\/a> orig, photo-poem<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nmy childhood desk drawer
\nempty<\/p>\n
\nbits of a price sticker
\nstuck on my finger<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"goose\"](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/goose.gif\")
<\/span><\/span> christmas evening
\nthe goose she raised
\nall summer<\/em><\/p>\n
\nshe hides
\nthe mistletoe<\/p>\n
\nhe can\u2019t find
\nthe mistletoe<\/p>\n
\nshe pastes on
\na Holiday smile<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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N<\/em><\/strong>ot content with dampening any “<\/span>holiday spirits<\/span><\/a>” that<\/span><\/span><\/span> don’t <\/span>acknowledge his own parochial faith,\u00a0Prof. <\/em><\/span>Bainbridge<\/em> is now<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> turning his Scrooge-like evil grin toward the poor folks of Canada, hoping to further his own parochial political and petro interests \u2014 by suggesting we make Alberta the 51st State.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"