Scott Simpson · Poetry

The Fire Inside

Use For Kindling · source pages 48

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The Fire Inside

This is not the Christmas

we planned—

but the fire still crackles, and

someone you love just

laughed from the other room.

You wore green. I wore

purple. And somehow, it worked.

Somewhere, a turkey

lived. Somewhere, you were

missed.

Still, the season holds.