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What Reminds Me Of Christmas?

David Hernandez

The snow comes in the only place
the writer knows: Ruidoso, NM.

He drives past the white trees to his cabin,
where he lays on his couch,
seeing icicles forming on his window.

He gets up to drink hot tea
to ease his sore throat.
He holds an empty small box,
wishing a diamond ring would appear,
and two white teddy bears,
without necklaces around their necks.

He imagines two girls named Annabelle and Ruby,
accepting their gifts, before waking up,
walking out the door,
lying on the snow,
and staring into to the sky.

“Every year in Christmas,
I wake in this snow covered cabin,
staring at these objects
that keep reminding me
why I stay alone.”

“The snow covers me from head to toe,
and it still doesn’t erase the memory
of her kissing me, after hearing my marriage proposal.”

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