by Helen Ivory | Dec 27, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
The Angel Gabriel Visits Mary in Bedlam (Ecce Ancilla Domini!) After Dante Gabriel Rossetti look at the dove so wide a suicide against the wall wrap it up in the blue cloth I’ve been keeping it unwrinkled for such a purpose long blue...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 26, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas is the end of the world It took some adjusting but we’re looking forward to it now. Next door have hung the bunting out, lines and lines of LOVE and PEACE which would have cost the earth until we realised there was no point in money any...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 25, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Decorate our tree in ASD From Here to Epiphany I must wear four scarves, touch-whispery in tinsel, to wrap – no – not quite tight enough to cover the trunk in shine. Let me leave the room for my staccato happenings, test flickerings of white wee...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 24, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Noel After Sasha Dugdale Christmas is coming. December is amber with last month’s leaves and fairy lights flutter in the high street. The fir tree beside the Buttercross is naked, fenced-off by railings anyone could topple – and, look, here they...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 23, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Advent Why wait? the supermarket asks (you know which one) when puddings ooze expense and calendars for Advent spill indulgence. Down the street festive lights jitter and twitch. Each day is inching shorter. Wood pigeons strip the hedgerow holly...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas at the Poundland Plaza Under a concrete sky heavy with snow a zig-zag disabled access path leads from the car park to the mall across the Poundland Plaza. Hot air escaping through the sliding doors spirals a drift of balance statements...
