DPF / Fishback

For all those perfecting the skill of perfect packaging for those of us taking the material seriously at this time of year that glimmers on many levels, from poetryfoundation.org.

from A Copywriter’s Christmas / by Margaret Fishback

The Twenty-fifth is imminent
And every known expedient
Designed for making Christmas pay
Is getting swiftly under way

DPF / Wyncoop

Double poems today, because this one’s especially for my eerily-talented critique group of yore. This one’s from our own Laura, who is also one of the editors of the book in which the poem appears. The book is An Eyeball in My Garden, (2010), recently out in paperback, appropriate for brave 5th graders to adult, and edited by two amazing women, Laura Wyncoop and Jennifer Cole Judd.

from Halloween Night / by Laura Wyncoop

As dangling ghosts untie their strings
To float among the trees