As a child, I used to assume that Boxing Day meant one of three possible things: 1) It was the day we boxed up all our presents to take them home from our grandparents’. (We never did this, so it probably wasn’t option 1.) 2) After a day of celebrating together, we were now sickContinue reading “On the second day of Christmas…”
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Christmas 2: Boxing Day
This is how the child leads: A shepherd charged with feeding the grieved takes every stone hate hurls at him; a king and his page trudge through charity’s snow; boxes are filled with surplus things; the lion lies down with the lamb. We who eat from Plenty’s horn, flush with leftovers, paper scraps, beneath theContinue reading “Christmas 2: Boxing Day”
The Consolations of Writing 