DECEMBER SCHOOL let for holiday Her parents found an open pack of menthols in her knapsack and put her in the house for two weeks. He stayed at his room, and he watched the streets, and at night he went out with a wooden bat, and split a wooden cut out of a coal eyed snowman with a red scarf, and he went for a reindeer at the front of a sleigh, antlers glistened with snow paint, busted two candy canes, and then he backed his car at a yard tree strung with colored lights, yanked a bundle and held, punched the gas, and the lights tore from the tree. He trailed a long rope of them and the wire flapped at his windows in the cold air passed, and he opened his hand, and let it go at the street.