Call It Christmas, Call It Yule is a poem first written in December 2006. It has been substantially reworked for 2009. Poems, like thoughts, are living things and sometimes a poet feels the need to revisit older work once considered to have been completed, to bring it more into line with his or her current feelings and thoughts. This is simply because a final draft can appear anything but with the passing of time and accumulation of experience. Less simply, a poet and poem can never be separated from one another, not entirely, never successfully. The same is true of [...]