by Helen Ivory | Dec 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
The Christmas Market Her mother doesn’t want to linger here – cheap stuff from South America at cruelly inflated prices. Disgrace. But Nuala won’t be dragged away. There are wooden frogs that sing an ugly croaking song. Their coats are...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 21, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
The Solstice Turn Happiness starts coming back with winter chill. The cold raises the hairs on the back of our necks the way honesty does. The sky opens its arms to clouds and the setting sun paints them gradually into shadow. We hold back from...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 1, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Weighing yourself in the dark at Christmas in your parents’ house You do not know how to weigh yourself at Christmas in your parents’ house, now it is no longer yours. You are used to standing naked each day in your flat with closed blinds. The...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 31, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Knots When I remember the white paint of the door frame it’s not my tiny 8-year-old hands that grip it, steadying the spinning top of my chest. It’s not with those hands I feel the squeak of paint under fingertips, not with that thumb...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 30, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Left Over Christmas Trees Paper never refuses ink, no matter how hard the words it just absorbs. In the same way the eye never refuses the blue of sky, the fish water, the bird never spurns air. In the wind leaves of eucalyptus show their silver...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 29, 2023 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
Lightfall lightfall so, too snow Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and...
