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Laurie Briar

First Christmas

by Laurie Briar

One whole year's

time emptied

Like lace leaves

From the cold trees

Skeletal wisps

You are missing

attic tinsel

Boxed deep and dusting

With bristles flaking

From the broken spine

So no silver lines

Our crisp, black-branched pine.

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