Digging a Tree
Christopher Clauss
Other families
saw to trunk,
cut their own tree
are happy to take
and haul it home to die
in their living room.
This is a thing
to someone else.
with a shovel not a saw.
This is why we bring the shovel,
My family
replanted in the yard
Tradition
is now taller than the house
is a powerful teacher.
have always gone to the tree farm
The tree from my first birthday
that will soon belong
I have never done.
the reason we dig
through frozen ground,
pop the roots out like a cork
This is the meaning of Christmas.
There is hope.
with strains and groans.
only having one Christmas tree survive.
This is the reason we have dug
nine holes in nine years
There is always hope.
•••
Stay Stripy
SLM
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