Planning

Christmas preparations are underway. These will soon be in the mail on their way to friends and family.

It's unseasonably warm here, but I am readying for Winter. 

I'm planning and celebrating and feeling Christmas-y.


And don't you think
the trees themselves, especially those with mossy,
warm caves, begin to think
of the birds that will come-- six, a dozen-- to sleep
inside their bodies?
Mary Oliver