Note: Thanks for all the social media and email support yesterday. Glad people are enjoying this absurd little project. Also, even though I chickened out on depicting the geese, I think you’re really going to love the swans a swimming tomorrow.

A Poem for Sixth Day of Christmas

The prize Christmas goose:
A fitting synecdochic focus
for the moveable feast
born slumward by the convert Scrooge.

Surely he’d have seen it as
a weighty sign of God’s largesse,
the abundance of mercy
visited thrice upon him.

But grace is not magic.

A goose already cooked
or killed and plucked at least
is a fine gift. But it is
picked to the bone
too soon. Plus it’s
showy as hell.

My true love has some strange gift ideas;
geese laying eggs are an exception.
Give Scrooge six months, a year.

Perhaps he’ll learn to better see
and serve.

For the Twelve Days of Christmas, I’m making cut paper art. At least until multiplication gets the better of me.

Related Prayer

The Nativity of Our Lord: Christmas Day (BCP, Public Domain)

Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the same Spirit be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

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