{"id":4285,"date":"2005-12-20T00:54:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/12\/20\/last-minute-not-yet-christmas"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:18","slug":"last-minute-not-yet-christmas-eve-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/12\/20\/last-minute-not-yet-christmas-eve-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"last-minute? not yet [christmas eve haiku]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh, stop catastrophizing.  It’s only December 20th.  Real<\/EM> Men  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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until about lunchtime on December 24th.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christmas Eve–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the hum of power lines<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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just pass the mall<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    <\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT>Alice Frampton<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>– <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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        New Resonance 3<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>; beyond spring rain<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Christmas eve<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the carousel animals<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christmas eve<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in the courtyard below<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a flutter of wings<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“santaDudeNeg”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Christmas eve-
the row of cut trees
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Pamela Miller Ness<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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“Christmas eve\/trees”: “Modern Haiku<\/EM>” XXIX:2 (Summer 1998)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Christmas eve\/carousel” Modern Haiku<\/EM> XXIX: 2 (Summer 1998)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Christmas eve\/courtyard” –  “Can Collector’s Red Socks<\/EM>” (2003)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christmas eve <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in her pajamas all day <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the youngest one<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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      Tom Clausen<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> – <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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             <\/FONT>Upstate Dim Sum<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (2003\/1<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG>)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christmas morning<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a yellow ribbon<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of sun<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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         <\/FONT><\/EM>Alice Frampton<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> – <\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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              <\/FONT><\/EM>The Heron’s Nest<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> (Dec. 2003)<\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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p.s.<\/STRONG><\/EM>  Well, no, I didn’t quite get all those cards mailed out yesterday.<\/FONT>  <\/DIV>
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My faith in the USPS is almost total. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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red envelopes<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the sound<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of children’s laughter<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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winter evening<\/DIV>
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a cafeteria tray<\/DIV>
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at the end of the slope<\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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silent night, holy night<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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         three<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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      at the bar<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                    David G. Lanoue<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                            from the novel <\/FONT>Haiku Guy<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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Nana serves<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Grandma’s recipes — <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christmas Eve calamari    <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Oh, stop catastrophizing.  It’s only December 20th.  Real Men   don’t think “last-minute shopping” or “last-minute preparations” until about lunchtime on December 24th.        Christmas Eve– the hum of power lines just pass the mall        Alice Frampton–         New Resonance 3; beyond spring rain       Christmas eve the carousel animals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","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-177","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","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=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12859,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}