by Kate Birch | Dec 22, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a circle of radiance cradling the sun… on this winter’s morning we are held again by light Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku...
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 Fathima Zahra | Dec 21, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
Lacrimosa, 2004 //There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly. //The last time I stood by the sea, the waves snaked in and swept my shoes away in one quick lick of tide. I walked home barefoot...
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...
