Watching Two Scenes Unfold

          A  Yuletide Painting

 

The girl steps down from decorating

a tree. Her hair strewn  with tinsel and Juniper

as it floods the eye with the light

of the Winter sun.

 

She smiles and summons a bird

that had been resting on the window sill.

The mourning dove lands in her palm

and she offers me his shadow.

 

         A Yuletide  Moment

 

I hang the last ornament

on our tree, a  golden sheaf of grain,

as you step out of the door way

into the hall. Your hair the lighter  darkness

of dusk  shading a countenance soft

with silence. You bring me a small  bowl

 

of black berries. Their fruit ripe

beyond sweetness, enough to make the room

seem closer, my pulse quicken.
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Beautiful Christmas painting is called, "Decorating The Tree" by Carl Larsson