‘The Day After Christmas’
or
‘Keep Your Damn Reindeer Off My Roof’
our son-in-law, Jean, gets up early for work,
Jasmine packs and drives back to Atlanta,
Carol, Leah and our granddaughter, Naylah,
return gifts of wrong sizes and spend gift cards on shoes,
the chickens are fed and snug in their coop,
Zakiah dreams teenage angst asleep in his bed
and I’m left alone in the quiet and peace
12-26-23
My husband's poetry 
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