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This purple takes a bit of getting used to,

ditto candles, wreaths and greens,

plus greeting cards arriving in the mail.

Surely it’s not that time again already . . .

time to get ready, as so many times before,

prepared to greet the coming of that One who,

despite all our days and years of solemn expectation,

never fails to surprise,

to advent in the most unsuitable of venues,

dazzle with tears of memory, loss, regret,

the mad-yet-mending impulses of tenderness,

faint, yet still fair, fragrances of future hope,

then leave behind a lingering glimpse

of warm, mid-winter welcomes yet to be.