by Helen Ivory | Apr 16, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Coral Mother She was hard and soft, beach and rock, kids passed through like subatomic particles channelling dolphins, whales, sharks, tiddlers, tropical colours, grey and sombre, skin cut and skin kept in trauma; hair and loneliness sucked into...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 15, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
coupling glass sponge silica home for shrimps entering when young and slim seeking food as they swell the shrimps cannot escape a perfect gift for the newlyweds. Duncan Richardson is a writer of fiction, poetry, haiku, radio drama...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 14, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* fledglings leaving a robin’s nest broken * his car peals out of the driveway shattered ice * a frenzy of finches at the feeder: disquiet, here * prayers on her pearl rosary a frayed noose * a lone hummingbird at the feeder suddenly spring ...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 13, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
For my *Grand-Nephew In anticipation of your stopover I am dressing my deftness at gamification. Even if I flounder in arresting your attention, my toothless one, slay me with your moue so I sidestep this inadequacy like many others. *I’ve no...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
This vast heart of space Life condensed In a speck of bumble bee is vast; she bats herself against a pane of glass. I catch this fireball in a drinking cup and like a bomber jet she plunges into endless blue. My breath is caught at this tracing...
