How to gift a poem…

• Tweet it a line at a time.
• Post it on Facebook.
• Hand-write or print it and put it in a frame.
• Stamp it into a paver.
• Stitch it like an old-fashioned sampler.
• Transfer it onto a t-shirt, mug, bowl, etc.
• Make a collage out of it.
• Make a chapbook out of it.
• Put it in an envelope and mail it.
• Tuck each line behind a little window, like an Advent calendar.
• Seal it in a bottle and toss it in the sea with a forwarding address.
• Laminate it and hang it as a holiday ornament.
• Write it in lipstick on the mirror
  or chalk on the sidewalk.
• Blog it.
• YouTube it.
• Record it and MP3 it.
• Geo-cache it.
• Origami it.
• Roll it like a scroll and put it in a Christmas stocking, basket, candy box, saucepan, pillowcase, jacket pocket.
• Inscribe it in something weatherproof and stake it in the garden.
• Write it in sand and take a picture from above.
• Memorize it and say it aloud.
• Etc.

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