by Helen Ivory | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dream witch Clearing out clutter before Christmas I pick up the figure my daughter made in October; clay skull on stick body yellow corn kernel eyes and crooked mouth pressed in by small fingers, dried brown corn silk hair under a crown of leaves...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 13, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Spinning out She sees but doesn’t as she spins her coffee out. Behind her, morning squishes wide against the station buffet. Train liveries drape across their line of travel, suffer the shunt and wheeze of doors and half-tumbled bodies....
by Helen Ivory | Jun 12, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Glorious The problem with hotels, she’s found is that you cannot escape the mirrors the buffed marble polish of it all. She can swerve in oversized robes bath towels, sheets. Do the dance of the seven veils, but still is destined to catch the...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 11, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Unscripted Surfaces The window frames a mirror-lake In the room, a desk, oak that still Calls to its sisters, it suffers the fate Of use and wear, the many hands That have laid on it, the careless cups, The lamps and trinkets and it is full Of...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
When You Become a Man’s Muse don’t make the mistake of marrying him. You’ll end up in the kitchen facing the wall until he’s ready, then dragged on all fours onto the canvas, dressing gown undone, pet dog following. stories shift in...
