Time Kept by the Ox and Lamb
Mary nodded
Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
The ox and lamb kept time
Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
A wonderful
Metered
And who knows
Maybe jazzy moment
As
We’re talking
Myth
And magic
More imagination
Overall
The ox and lamb
They kept
Time
While the drum was played
By a boy
Not a grown-up
For this first
Time
Not by a symphony
If there were a chorus
One of angels
It might have gone
Pianissimo
Then
Mary nodded
She could have tapped her toes
Or snapped her fingers
Though she was
After birth
And if she had been tired
She might have been tired
Then
And it might have been enough
To nod
As well as Joseph
After the efforts with all things
Arranging
Only nodding
Too
And then at midnight
All the animals
Join in
With voices we could hear
As being ours
Which is the legend
So that there’s magic upon magic
Contemporary
Ancient
Added to the textual lore
For fun
Perhaps
And without doubt
For meaning
And so let all created things exist
Parents
Children
Animals
Imagination and
Stories to tell
To sing
Maybe like animals at midnight
In a tappy
Or a jazzy way
Even a little wild
Like the passing of the Spirit
Through
And for
All things
C L Couch
The song “Little Drummer Boy,” first known as “Carol of the Drum,” was written by Katharine Kennicott Davis, appearing in 1941.
Photo by Carlos Coronado on Unsplash
Short Story Unit
I read a story once
One of many stories
Short stories, in fact
A unit we went through
I think it was in seventh grade
In this narrative,
Told from a boy’s perspective,
There was a stepmother
He didn’t like so much
No, she wasn’t classic fairytale mean
She was pleasant, but she wasn’t
His first mom
The real one
His mom was prettier
And better in all ways
But she had died
Then dad had remarried
The boy was sad, crestfallen
All the time
I don’t recall the lashing out
Because there wasn’t any
But at a dinner out, the boy
Noticed a moment when
His father tucked a loose
Curl up inside her hat,
And then the boy knew that his
Father really loved her
And for his sake
And for his sake,
He should try to love her, too
C L Couch
Image by Jenna Nguyen from Pixabay
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