Ribbon Candy
The sky darkens, is not yet dark.
Inside a candy box marked X
lie tangles of multicoloured
lights that we put up with a roll
of hockey tape on the living
room window, which is also the
dining room window, and also
the kitchen window. We drape the
strand round the perimeter, then
make a big X in the centre.
We’d prefer a scheme: red, green, and
white, maybe, and we don’t really
want the X in the middle. When
we plug them in, there’s the shock of
them lit against the now-dark; we
sense that all’s right with the world and
run outside to look up at our
window, see proof we’ve taken care
of everything that could be wrong.
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