Christmas Wonders ( Brian Wrixon )

Christmas dawns in a faraway land

We wonder what you will eat today

In our land of plenty we can forget

What hunger is like for you

Christmas dawns in a faraway land

We wonder if you will be well today

In our land of health we can forget

What sickness is like for you

Christmas dawns in a faraway land

We wonder what you will learn today

In our land of knowledge we can forget

What school is like for you

Christmas dawns in a faraway land

We wonder what you will face today

In our land of ease we can forget

What life is like for you

By

( Brian Wrixon )

Christmas ( Duncan Mcgibbon )

The Jews could come back to Spain 

and women voted in Swiss elections.

I hoped we would all be together for Christmas.

I followed the year to the hillside as the crow 

flew up to pull the thorns over a wretched font

in the ruined places of Prague, Chicago, Paris, Mexico…

Remembering the American’s dog 

that found me in a ditch that morning

and guarded me until I woke

and I knew I had befriended Cerberus,

despite my feet raised from birth

by Lewis Mumford’s Andean suburb.

By

( Duncan Mcgibbon )