by Helen Ivory | May 31, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Détente When I arrived home, the cat was already packing, said she had had enough – if not in so many words – stole a last glance at her coat in the bedroom mirror and left. Not as much as a purr for a week, though we noticed on Whatsapp she had...
by Helen Ivory | May 30, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Happy Verges These happy verges in rough grass that claimed us, flowers on the weeds where birds’ nests brim with delicate eggs where all adventures end in fields of germinating seeds while I alone forever wander I would not wish this journey...
by Helen Ivory | May 29, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Crux I was dreaming my real self when I woke with a jolt, had just slipped out of my seventh skin was approaching the nub of the thing. Like a chrysalis from ‘Khrusos’ meaning gold and holding S.O.S within it, I was slowly unpeeling my wings,...
by Helen Ivory | May 28, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
I Keep Dreaming of my Scarab Pendant You know me by my tooth enamel. I am skull, death in gold and malachite, cinnebared by rising suns, blood’s zest. I am woman of silence and feathers, moaning at the king’s touch, screaming to the gods at my...
by Helen Ivory | May 27, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Remnants It started with the usual sorts of beautiful trinket – flowers, feathers, pebbles in the rough and wonky shape of things – collected into shoe boxes, or lost beneath the car seat on the journey home. And we didn’t think...
