Holiday Inflatables Take to the Air
written by: Ellen Foos
The electric company warns of high winds,
secure your lawn decorations,
avoid powerline accidents, snowman decapitations
and Santa strangulations.
Maybe the Grinch will land in your neighbor’s pool
or Snoopy tangle in the highest tree.
Safest to leave the jolly tribe deflated in the grass
like an assortment of colorful garbage bags.
Take heed from the Macy’s Parade, a strong rope is a godsend,
when the wind lifts hard, the balloons stay within reach.
Reindeer really do know how to fly.
Ellen Foos is the founder and publisher of Ragged Sky Press and was the recipient of fellowships to MacDowell and the Vermont Studio Center. The Remaining Ingredients, published in 2016, won honorable mention in the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Contest. Her first collection of poems, Little Knitted Sister, was published in 2006 and her poetry has appeared in This Broken Shore, Contemporary American Voices, Edison Literary Review, and the Curator. Her day jobs in publishing included work for Ecco, Graywolf, and Princeton University Press.
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