by J. Patrick Lewis
To see
December press
Its face against the door,
I realize I've grown an inch
Or more
Since we
First hung you up.
You measured time by turns:
Hard winter nights to softball days,
Sunburns,
The chill
At Halloween,
Then, rumors of reindeer
Across the sky. Good-bye, Happy
Old Year!
from The Family Read-Aloud Holiday Treasury selected by Alice Low, illustrated by Marc Brown, 1991, Little Brown & Company
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