By Carolyn Pinet, Christmas 2024
Our planet is beginning
to swirl
as the night sky reveals
a startling kaleidascope:
December has speeded up
and look at us, secretly
wrapping and hiding gifts,
hiding and wrapping,
pretending that
all is as usual when
above us the firmament
is illuminated
with astral motion,
an incomparable,
stunning and starlit beauty,
a simple story
of shepherds, a stable,
and the birth of a love-child.