What I Would Wish For You

up and down the street, colored lights Blink from the sides and roofs of houses and from bushes and trees. from the corner to almost as far as you can see down this side of the street, points of red and green and white and blue shine in the night. just outside the window, old-fashioned christmas tree bulbs hang from the eaves: red, white, orange, green, blue -- and then the sequence resumes. beyond them, the silver leaf germander and hummingbird bush Blink and flash and fade, first one bush then the other. in the dark of the night, these shining lights are message enough for me. in the cold and the black, gleaming color and the shining brightness are what i would wish for you, in what remains of this year and for all of the next. ...