Luminaria

We all do different things to get ready for Jesus to be born.

We drove home from the airport yesterday.

All was brown with traces still

Of green.

In the next community over,

White bags line the street.

Evenly spaced,

They wait

For tonight

To be lit.

They wait

To glow with the entrance

Of the Christ Child

Into time and space

Into Green and brown

And snow (if it comes).

They wait for tonight

to announce the birth,

Evenly spaced

On Irving Park Road.