Poetry Friday: December (by Aileen Fisher) • Laura Purdie Salas

One of my favorite Christmas collections is Do Rabbits Have Christmas? (Henry Holt and Co., 2007), written by Aileen Fisher and illustrated by Sarah Fox-Davies. The poems here are deceptively simple, they’re filled with great imagery, and they really bring the joy and wonder of winter and the holidays to life.

Here’s one of my favorites:

December

I like days
with a snow-white collar,
and nights when the moon
is a silver dollar,
and hills are filled
with eiderdown stuffing
and your breath makes smoke
like an engine puffing.

I like days
when feathers are snowing,
and all the eaves
have petticoats showing,
and the air is cold
and the wires are humming,
but you feel all warm…
with Christmas coming.

Isn’t that lovely? The eiderdown stuffing on the hills and the petticoats of the eaves?

I look outside here in Minnesota and think Aileen would have found much to love here!

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