I just saw Santa on 3rd Avenue
whitest of a beard
furry brows
pinky face
Santa was ripe and holed up in a cardboard box
under the walkway
safe from the rain
in no man’s land
far from the North Pole
we think the world
is big but it’s us
on a pin head
and Santa at
the reins
Donna Dallas: I recently published my first novel, Death Sisters, with Alien Buddha Press. I currently serve on the editorial team for Red Fez and New York Quarterly.