by Helen Ivory | Jul 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Record Made a list. A record. The dishes she ate. Monuments visited. In Paris. In chronological order. A narrative into Paris, from England, through the dark tunnel, into the light. Then back, returning from steak and frites by the Arc de...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 8, 2025 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Mum, Mother and Me: A girl who believes she can see the future using green peppers reflects on her two mothers, a mysterious stain, and a dog she’s sure is pregnant. Mother’s POV I don’t know when it started. First it was one, then three, then...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 7, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Picnic Tempting death with every cobblestoned step his face was a collection of broken records — I was devouring a cheese baguette with grape jelly — Alas, my desires are always replaced by hunger / now we avoid each other at the King Streetcar —...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Waste There’s more waste than we use for the things we ordinarily use waste for, such as piling it on barges and sending them out to sea, tucking it under the surface like a layer of insulation, diamonds were waste once, and diamonds are valuable,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Just in Case You’d Forgotten there are some lives lived poolside and others that mostly consist of a bent back in a field – some are chauffeured some are piled into the backs of trucks driven fifty miles from border to farm on rough roads –...
