Archive for Holiday/Occasion
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BLUE CHRISTMAS • by Mark Dalligan
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A log fire burning, presents wrapped, snowflakes falling. Dickensian background to the opening of our Christmas Schnapps. Glasses clinking, laughter flowing, choirs singing. I sit quietly, sipping fine kirshwasser. Your stinging absence, a brake on the ancient engine of festivity. Mark Dalligan works in the City and only by subjugating his besuited self is he [...]
Concrete, Holiday/Occasion, Poems
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TIZZY SEASON • by Errol Nimbly 6 Comments
On Christmas Eve my wife has a hoot, Decorating our condo so cute; With fir boughs on the walls, Silver bells and rum balls, And our Pug in a Santa Claus suit. At present, Errol Nimbly‘s muse appears as a libidinous Limerickian leprechaun. Errol works less and less as a library custodian these days, as [...]
Holiday/Occasion, Poems
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ABYSMAL CHRISTMAS • by Barbara McGinley 11 Comments
Season of phoney sentiment: families flock together regardless of weather and whether or not old grudges are spent. Not us – we’re banished despite offers of food and booze. We shouldn’t have complained about commodification, pre-packed canapes or aunty’s teary sentimentality at Noel’s House party. And it was vulgar of me breastfeeding baby on demand. Who [...]
Holiday/Occasion, Poems
