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“Christmas Eve: A Gloss” by David Livwell

By Ernest Hilbert • December 14, 2019 • E-Verse Universe

For Joe Chelius

When empty lots were turned to groves
Of evergreens, the sap-smeared men
In army jackets, boots, and gloves
Would hunch at barrel fires again.
All night, by strung-up bulbs, they’d sell
The pines dragged home beneath the El.

That muddied, needle-fragrant ground
Still gleams, has frozen thirty years
Lodged in between. Those men are bound
To landscapes petrified and clear,
Entwining trees of this December
And every Christmas I remember.

David Livewell grew up in Philadelphia and won the 2012 T.S. Eliot Award for Poetry for Shackamaxon (Truman State University Press). He is now at work on a second collection.

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