Possibly my most Christmassy poem, “The Desert,” is featured in the first day of the e-zine Ink Sweat & Tears‘ “12 Days of Christmas” season. They will be publishing at least one, and often more, Christmas poems throughout the 12 days; very pleased to help kick things off.
I’ll colour a colley bird black as my heart,
black as your heart, blacker than love,
and give it to you, and its blue-black coat
will hold you in its feather mirror and prove
that light is in the dark, that pigment augments
the auguries of light by being their opposite:
that dark is bright. In the bleak desert
it’s the blackbird will see you home, not the dove…
Coming in June, in Egg Printing Explained. But for now, there’s the poem, the sentiment, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
A fine poem, Ms B.
And I like this picture.
Good wishes for these twelve days and nights.
Thanks, RTS. Picture ©David Secombe, taken on my balcony in warmer times.