Long distance friendships <br /> Cards at Christmas <br /> The rattle in the closet <br /> Dust on the keyboard <br /> Of an untuned grand <br /> Reports and exhortations <br /> Telephone bells, death knells <br /> Christmas trees light up <br /> The bones beneath the skin <br /> The holly bush and silent sin <br /> Beside the river huddled down <br /> Sleeping faces crib and crown<br /><br />Anthony Ward<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nativity-2/
