by Helen Ivory | Dec 7, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
A Fistful of Cake Loaded with hawks’ cries and horses’ huffs Ennio Morricone’s score wails as the camera narrows on cakeslingers’ squints. Eli Wallach’s, Clint Eastwood’s, and Lee Van Cleef’s hands tremble near leather holsters. Eastwood chews the...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Eating Apple Pie with Louisa May Alcott When the genie appears, I’m in a frivolous mood. First request? My mom’s apple pie. Genie, exceeding expectations, delivers it hot. As steam rises from slits in its cinnamon dusted crust, I cut two slices....
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 5, 2025 | Filmpoems
ONE DAY One day, one day We will sit on that bench under the lights Overlooking the river which you sweetly think is the sea One day, one day You will drown I will drown One day, one day I will drown you You will drown me In happiness In smiling nuts In...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The tenderness of beans slack in a bag from the freezer aisle shaken out like shrunken grey memes I long for the podding of beans to run my thumbnail once more down the dark seam of your housing over broad lumps and bumps that split open to fuzzy...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 4, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Holy Ground I imagine my mother pulling apart my praying hands. Don’t be such a holy roller, she’d taunt. Get over here, quit committing to the ethereal, get down on those knees and help your family pick strawberries. The bending made...
