by Helen Ivory | Dec 28, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
neither smoking nor dancing the temporary fence was already claimed woven with some quick growing weed and a silver socket graced the floor purposeless I am always kneeling to face you to meet your smallness to match your presence know the world...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 27, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
What the Woodcutter Knows About Midwinter The night is filled with frost, the start of a snowfall. The wind is hag-ridden through the forest, keening between the branches. In the darkness he sets his axe at the base of the tree, notches the trunk...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 26, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
A Berbice Christmas, 1962 Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets up the doorstep, Mother Sally big face rotating through bedroom windows...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 25, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas
Parable For thirty years, O Lord, we have lived in a house without foundations. And now it is Christmas again, we drape lights from the living apple tree to the dead one, haul o come o come from the piano, set the innumerable specials, the host of...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 24, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Madonna del Parto A fresco by Piero della Francesca, c.1460 Piero painted her in a week, after his mother died, her azure gown split open like a ripe plum, her posh girl fingers resting on the mystery, all swollen belly and haloed radiance. She...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 23, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Interference This tree, unlike others we have used, is shorter than we are and grows in a glazed ceramic pot. What we might choose to call branches, in truth are no more than twigs. Still, we festoon them with coloured lights and glittery...
