by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Through Both The second time something slips from his hand, he does not move right away. He studies the distance between intention and consequence. It looks smaller than it behaves. A nurse passes the doorway without stopping. There is no urgency...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Neveralways —him— Never shows up late to a single thing he’s invited to Always brings the most thoughtful and carefully curated and perfect gift Never shows up early and never once overstays his welcome Always appears well groomed and clean and...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Fallen Angel This is just a woman, sticking her life back together after years spent recovering. But the sky blackens, everything grows dark and minor. Unasked for, he appears again. What instruments does the demon use? Metal spoons on...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Sep 2, 2026 | Word & Image
inefficient use of resources Respect Is Rainful Rona Luo is a queer, neurodivergent poet and acupuncturist. Her visual poetry has been exhibited at the Southbank Centre, and her writing has appeared in Magma, Propel, fourteen poems, The...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Hive What you are – bodied light, a store of oil a hive of warm blood chemicals flooding a brain, calculating a furnace filament of awareness in a palpating dark a treeless dark a stone-edged dark coal river dark. Flesh and its impermanence....
