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The tree we cut
and carried
into our home

the one
we shackled
trimmed
sang to
and toasted

(rip a suckling child
from its mother)

(put makeup on a statue)

(be happy at a rape)

now lies on
its side
in the gutter

alone

with hooks
and tinsel
blowing in the wind


photo by: Matthew Drumright