"Noel" by Linda Pastan

 

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Like a single
ornament,

the red cardinal
on a pine

outside
the window

is our only
decoration,

until
the snow.

An Entire Year's Worth of Unfortunate Literary Happenings

Do you like bad things? Want to bum yourself out? You can now read the complete set of unfortunate, mostly literary happenings that happened in past months:

Douginamug, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

specifically Halloween

November

December

I hope your winter holiday season, or summer if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, is going better than the days any of these people had. One day I'll put these, and many, many other weird and unfortunate events, out in ebook and printed almanac form. I'll shoot for 2024 as a goal.