by Ivory Web | Dec 27, 2011 | 12 days 2011
How It Hits YouPicking up the Christmas postfrom the old house,I unclench my fingers one by one from the steering wheel,breathe out.And in the lowering lightagainst the hills of someone else’s home,the yellow advent squares of the traincome close to the road we...
by Ivory Web | Dec 26, 2011 | 12 days 2011
A Christmas UniverseFor CharlotteThis year you’ve grown too old for anagrams,
that devil’s name within a Santa hat.
You tell me that you have no need of things
or wishes that you’ll later learn to curse:
the Midas touch, the genii trickster’s lamp
are all behind...
by Ivory Web | Dec 25, 2011 | 12 days 2011
The Expat and the Angel Come to LunchI had high hopes. I have prepared mutabel and labneh, Arabic bread, salad leaves from Saudi, fresh conversation. My Englishneighbour shares her views on lazy maids, her husband's job in small drill bits, the cost of water,...
by Ivory Web | Dec 24, 2011 | 12 days 2011
'White Christmas' When the Christmas Eve snow silenced the trafficthat screamed through our village,mother and I , stolen chocolate andfrowning school report forgotten,trespassed with present opening thrillinto the middle of the highwayand thumbing our...
