by IB | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Memory of Lives incarnation. God in his worn, greasy jeans like a car mechanic is lighting a new life from an old one. a new cigarette from a cigarette butt. and you are merely a flame between the two worlds, smoked on an empty stomach. while he breathes...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Erato It takes ages. Tell me what it is you’re after she says, when finally I get through. Rain, I answer, rain that falls softly in a garden, and on the Aegean, the noise they make together, trees in the rain, and the way rain brightens the green...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Olympics I devoured the Olympics, filled my mouth and scrapbook with sticky ephemera. I stalked a torch, seized my shining, perforated prey, and stared into the void of Wenlock and Mandeville’s eyes. Sometimes, I am in the Olympics. I crawl from...
by IB | Mar 17, 2025 | Reviews
The Horse And The Girl (originally published by Lapwing) is the first book in of what will be a trilogy, The Crossing Places Series. Maiden Mother Crone is the second publication in the series. Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Craftsmanship beneath night’s skin he unearths raw stones serrated encrusted enigmatic cold tumbling them in two-twenty grit wears away the dull four hundred six hundred highlights the delicate garnet’s exposed seam agate’s...
