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Christmas Lights

At Christmas time, the most humble and overlooked places can share in the wonder of this supernatural time. It was during such a lowly encounter as this, I tried to capture and preserve in writing a few illuminated moments so as to never forget. Perhaps I was tapping in to the sense of that very first Christmas…

Old-fashioned glow of lights

in obscure places

announces Christmas’s approach

when illumination heightens

the everyday ordinary

into the glorious.

Even in a darkened hallway

with one Noel candle present,

Heaven and nature sing.

Chris O’Riley 2012

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