Christmas Eve by Suchoon Mo

Suchoon Mo lives in the semiarid part of Colorado, USA. His most recent poems appear in Aji Magazine, Modern Literature, Scarlet Leaf Review, Armarolla.

Christmas Eve this Christmas eve three Buddhist monks go trudging over the frozen snow

in the darkness of starless night

towards a Catholic church for the candle lit midnight mass each monk bearing no gift but for a rosary in his hand as their own temple is bleak and the dozing Buddha doesn't give a damn