Happy
Christmas,
1999
to all of you
from all of us
at
A Safe Place To Land
CHRISTMAS
Jimmy Buffett o Carlos Castaneda o Quentin Crisp o Sir Lew Grade o Conrad Hilton o Annie Lennox o Celia Lipton o Little Richard o Barbara Mandrell o Isaac Newton o Anwar Sadat o Hanna Schygulla o Rod Serling o Sissy Spacek o Gladys Swarthout o Helen Twelvetrees o Rebecca West
Don’t forget
whose birthday we celebrate today.
Love is another word for Christmas.
You I remember. Because of what you are to me. Merry
Christmas.
CHRISTMAS YET TO COME
Tomorrow comes
and Christmas next year too.
And hour upon hour
as afternoons chase evenings
the days turn into decades.
Hark the holidays
and keep them holy
save them all as markers.
One Christmas –
not yet here perhaps
but on its way
we’ll be well again.
The world and we.
I’ll come back to building bridges.
You’ll begin rebuilding me.
