Christmas Eve at the Moon Under Water

'Tis the season to be reading. Today's reading suggestion (and the very first this Season): Christmas Eve at the Moon Under Water. Poem by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrations by Margaux Carpentier. Reading her poetry is now a personal Christmas literary tradition. It's a dreamlike and surreal narrative poem where animals and humans mix during a singing contest. In an English pub. Time and space converge to the Moon Under Water. Sacred and profane elements of the season too, with the Nativity story and its characters making an improbable appearance. Carol Ann Duffy's writing is so genuinely seasonal.