by Helen Ivory | Feb 14, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
cheap this love was battered eventually it started naked with its scales shining and its eyes vacant now they are covered coated and ready a flick of batter to test the temperature followed by a splash and disruption of fat to make...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 13, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Sartre in the park. It is October and yet I left home without a jacket This warmth is nauseating The pale orange horizon brings memory of sickly sweet Summers Come and gone The cloud angel-whipped across the Whole Sky Will not disconnect Will...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 12, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* the winter sun warms her bedclothes – open window * rustling leaves in the bare forest … unwanted girl * snowflakes… ducklings quack about the lake * a crow’s feather turned over by the wind night glow * twilight settles on the frozen river...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 11, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
A Horse Galloping Through Brecon Museum before the capture of silver upon glass it was a lucky guess by the artist to paint the correct gait of a horse the life-size portrait of the Marquess of Bute’s stud...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 10, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
* upturned boat wind whipped sand wipes it clean * from the train window concrete, more concrete … finally cherry blossoms * windy day — cleaning the mountain of litter ripple in the ferns * wild garlic its smell lingers among unidentified grass * warmth of the...
