A Christmas Canzonet

Prose, poetry and more fine art ... Prologue: Notes from a memorandum-book of Mr. Knickerbocker: xv Epigraph: When Gods Ruminate by Tom Sheehan xvii SECTION ONE: WHEN NATURE MATTERS Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry 3 The Creation of Eve by Ronald E. Shields 8 Star Potential by Mike Lewis 11 A Walk on a Windy Day by MLF 13 Edwin Booth by Jan Wiezorek 17 In The Absence of Infinity by Jennifer Lothrigel 19 Current Affairs by Marie Fitzpatrick 21 Party by Alan David Pritchard 23 Winter's Last Breath by Oonah V Joslin 25 Portimao 2017 by Dolores Duggan 26 SECTION TWO: SOMETHING MORE SLEEP, sleep, beauty bright/ Dreaming in the joys of night Interlude From An Interlude by Barry Charman 32 Listen Without Prejudice by Sergio A. Ortiz 34 The Arrival of Spring by James G. Piatt 37 Light Whispers Through the Skin of the World by James Owens 39 Imaginary Translations from the Falling World by James Owens 40 The End by Ceinwen E C Haydon 42 Pilgrimage by Robert Nisbet 44 Summer's End by Cindy King 47 Patient Zero by Cindy King 48 xmas tree by Cindy King 49 The Great Synagogue of Constanta by Brandon Marlon 50 SECTION THREE: A CONSPIRACY OF LOVE The hills are shadows, and they flow/From form to form, and nothing stands; Christmas Catchup by Oonah V Joslin 55 Storied Lives by M. M. Adjarian 57 The Green Seed of Jealousy by Lesley Timms 64 Our Night Watchman by Lesley Timms 67 Galloway Shipwrecks by J S Fuller 69 Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Ruben Saillens Translated by Leo Tolstoy73 Waltz in 5 Time by Daniel Timms 75 Season's Greetings 84 Judith A. Lawrence, Art, 86 SECTION FOUR: MURMURATIONS The bells of waiting Advent ring, the Tortoise stove is lit again My Dog Ate My Fleurs du Mal by Oonah Joslin 95 Skating By William Wordsworth 101 Ode For the Boy With a Smile and Guitar by Michael Seegar 104 A Mess for the Sages by Tom Sheehan 10 CONTEMPORARY ART Judith A. Lawrence Moving Christmas 86 Red Wheelbarrow 87 Sled Ride 88 Winter Walk 89 Urban Christmas 90 BIO 91 PHOTOSHOP Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick Hanging the Moon, PS: MLF, 2017 xi Birds in Flight, PS: MLF, 2017 12 Man in Flight, PS: MLF, 2017 14 Ship, MLF 2017 39 OTHER DREAMERS CLASSIC ART In the Grass by Arthur Hughes 2 Plaid Sweater by Grant Wood 9 Art: Starry night by Edvard Munch 10 Trishka's coat by Valentin Serov 12 Art: Edwin Booth by John Singer Sargent 16 Sketches of a Man with a Ladder, Other Figures, and a Cemetery by Vincent van Gogh, 20 Surprised Nymph by Edouard Manet 22 Chorus by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky 33 The Dragon Of Smoke Escaping From Mount Fuji, by Katsushika Hokusa 21 Woman on Ship Deck, Looking out to Sea by Maurice Prendergast 27 Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap by Pieter Brueghel the Elder 35 A Song of Springtime by John William Waterhouse 36 A flycatcher on cucumber bush by Ohara Koson 40 Joyous Woman by Ferdinand Hodler 43 My Loved Ones by Carl Larsson 45 The 12 wild ducks by Theodor Severin Kittelsen 46 Angel, I will follow you by Jacek Malczewski 50 White Bear King Valemon by Theodor Severin Kittelsen 54 Awabi Pearl Fisher by Shotei Takahash 56 Green Eye Mask, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso 65 A Christmas Carol, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 66 The Storm, or The Shipwreck by Theodore Gericault 68 Neptun's Horses by Walter Crane 70 Music Lesson, Nikolay Bogdanov Belsky 77 Art, La Goulue and Valentin, Waltz by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 78 Large Christmas Card by Aubrey Beardsley 85 The Schoolgirl's Hymn, William Holman Hunt 94 A Hand Holding a Letter, George Romney 99 Skaters in Fredericksberg park by Paul Gauguin 100 Still Life with Guitar by Juan Gris 105