by Helen Ivory | Jun 3, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
      Search Party Damp October grass left watercolour Brush strokes on my grey Golas As the path retreated behind us like a shrinking quayside. We scouted the undergrowth like a crime-scene Armed with pictures from a stranger’s Instagram, Placing...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Helen Ivory | Jun 2, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
      My father is calling the neighbours names Out on the grass my father is calling the neighbours names. It is his art. Softly, he starts to mourn. The sky’s a mild suburban blue, each lawn so circumspect it’s like a stamp, but he is being moved by...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Helen Ivory | Jun 1, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
      Soliloquy O little sister. little lark. little mischief never to be found out. How your broad smile is a quartered melon and answers drip from my chin. O little mirror. little wheel. little carriage into the universe next door. How we ride...