by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The wolves were not invited but they came regardless their manners were dreadful never cleaning between their claws after meals or their teeth at bedtime but they displayed a certain charm when finally agreeing to leave placing a single golden...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
The Scholar’s Fatigue We dine in a swamp of papery ideas, cornered opinions; a spiny call for digestion. When did I first reserve a table for two? Bold and proud you stack up every day ready to chew. In bed you block the covers where another...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
Archaeology When we light the fire under you, consider this; that a glowing coal, embering away, was once a tall tree, a fern, or a reed, maybe? It lived, once, a hundred million years ago, can you imagine that? Every summer, for its whole life,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Lotus Garden In a shifting drift of regulars and strangers, in a passing place of daily alchemy, a cook is orchestrating a fivefold composition: a stirring of the tastebuds, a flavour carousel, a virtuoso matching of salt and sour-sweet, piquant in the top...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
Beverly Thompson Beverly Thompson (False name, of course) Sat in a coffin thinking it a house G David Schwarz is the former President of “Seed House”, an on-line, interfaith community forum. He has also published three books – A Jewish...
