JuneXmas
What Did He Fall into Now?
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5:30 AM I heard it crash
he’d knocked over the Christmas Tree
the sharp breaking noise
little balls breaking
ornaments rolled across the floor
I closed my eyes asking
sleep to return and night blot my ears
as it dawned into my brain
we’d only reached half the year
so then the voice inside that mind
asked when had that winter day
become the birthday of a desert lord
Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240)
the Greek Christian had written
that the conception of God’s
magically impregnated virgin
was on March 1st long ago, so far away
nine months later in a land
we knew that cold season
was not a bit like ours
no snow for Santa to land on roofs
and reindeer anteloped away
for even I knew Saturnalia
was where his birthday in time
and wonder, wondered what was the year
and which Pope made it on St. Nicolas Day
I found that Julius the 1st took the Roman way
and another source said Constantine
made the holy holiday in 336 AD
So if it took the Son of God
little baby god incarnate
330 or so years to have a birthday
why can’t he knock down the Xmas tree last night?
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©James M. Frase-White 4 June 2025
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