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Daniel Wilcox

 

Missing Star and Cradle

 

 

Weird Christmas Eve 30 times past
With no holly, blinking red or green lights,

No holy decorations, only the gaudy glare
Of cold Jerusalem's neon theater marquee

We watched Catch 22 with our kibbutz group
After being frisked for bombs at the entrance.

Years explode by while politicians yet clatter
Uncradled in the maze of their doctrinal ways;

The sacred cave's still dark and unstable,
For more unwise men, so starless, misrule. 

 
Daniel Wilcox earned his degree in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He is a former activist, former literature teacher, and former wanderer who has farmed in the Middle East and worked as a volunteer on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation. His writing has appeared in The Other Side, Oak Bend Review, various online magazines such as Danse Macabre, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, The Green Silk Journal, Words-Myth, and other publications.