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In The Cupboard Below
December 22, 2015
                                
                                
                                  There’s spiders
  Tangled up
  Tinsel
  It’s all in there
  Of course
  Folded away
  All waiting
  For the big day
  If only
  We
  Can find them
  In time.

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA
                                
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Lots of things get stored up in anticipation of family gatherings, not just decorations. In this way, the decorations and other trimmings we only pull out a couple of times a year for these events become a metaphor for the kinds of emotions or memories - the good and the bad - that are stirred by these events.