by Helen Ivory | Nov 12, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Notes after a walk: a tree that had caught its own fallen limb She hadn’t lost a child but if she had she imagined it would be like that. To hear footsteps running up behind you, and to turn around and no one there. To see a crow gliding under the...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 11, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Death of an autistic war child I was born on the sleeves of an immigrant father whispered God into my ear My tears were folded in muslin Stars stayed in drone-moan sky I was a difficult birth early as the Thrush Freckled as the bullet ridden...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 10, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
calm river again, his fishing line caught on a tree * raindrops slide down the window death in the family * thick clouds snowflakes dot my dog’s fur * breaking clouds flower petals pasted to my windshield * Christmas dinner with Mom’s new...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Sarsaparilla Road travels through swamps and reeds, over a black water creek and a narrow bridge, past the swift river with all of its snags and eddies, through the winding gorge of slippery-back slopes, scarps of limestone and galloping gorse to...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 8, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Location of Incident Not in that parking lot, not in that residential area, not in that blue car splashed with mud. Not in that leather backseat — fingernail torn. Not in that stuffy air clouding windows. And not — not in this heart. Yet — not not...
