Christmas Day... A Week

Christmas Day, Give or Take a Week

In the green cathedral of redwood spires
Do choirs of birds sing carols,
Do stars tangled in green branches remember
A cosmic tremor when Love was born?
Is it Christmas morn?
In Sequoia halls where silence falls
Like snow on snow
Does a fire glow?
In the crystal air, is the wind a prayer?
Is is Christmas there?
Where the outcast, the stranger,
Finds shelter, a manger,
In the heart of a tree,
Do small beasts draw near?
Is fear outcast, too?
Are all things made new
In the calm, in the bright,
Is it Christmas night?

- Elise Maclay