back in your head

What I wrote in the Christmas card to the Obama family.

warpaintetiquette:

No, seriously. I signed their Christmas card. Because at the end of the year, everyone is a human. And everyone deserves a little something just to make sure we are all still in this together.

You are four floating buoys
in a fortress of smooth white stone
shaking your fists at the walls.
Knock them down with the smile in your lips.
Invite the nation to your Christmas dinner.
We will all be there
sitting at the edge of the gravy server
our legs dangling, swirling in what you have spilled.
But your voices will echo off of the silverware,

your soft fingers will peel apart the dinner rolls,

you have been working so hard
for everyone’s dinner table.
And tonight, please sit at your own.
And never ever take your eyes off of the concave spoon

with its rare, uncanny ability to hold

all of your family’s reflection in it at once.

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