I SEE US IN A SNOWGLOBE

by Josephine Foster

I see us in a snow globe,
my merry friends and I
Christmas Eve at Robert’s
It’s blizzarding, yet we
my merry friends we’ve gathered
for some stragglers at the bar

I see us in a snow globe
in a tiny diner car of glass
Chris upon the drums
John and Peggy on guitars
and I upon my wooden flute
frozen amungst stars

A song of baby Jesus
glowing in the night
A song of friendly beasts—
donkeys gently bray
It’s blizzarding in Nashville
we carol for some stragglers,
hunched frozen at the bar

I hear a wind that stirs the flakes
Peggy’s ringing her blue bell
I see us in a snow globe
It’s Christmas Eve you see—
A hand has shaken us!
has Robert’s taken us?
here we come, a-wassailing!

Josephine Foster is a Colorado composer and performer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space,” writes The Guardian. Her most recent recordings are in collaboration with the longrunning Nashville band, The Cherry Blossoms, on their record Stars of Tennessee (Feeding Tube Records).

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