by Helen Ivory | Apr 6, 2015 | Prose & Poetry
Small Horse Equuleus Pictoris A bent line, not much more: Pictor, the Abbé saw an easel in you, twig-tendril afloat in the Southern sky. Your jaunty stance winks neither canvas nor paint. Three points pink, half-seen from half the earth, your...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 5, 2015 | Prose & Poetry
A Noise Affair The quiet is in here somewhere, surely. The child with the hammer is taking anything it can grab in its tiny hands and smashing it. For his coin in a fountain, a would-be lover gets a loud watery spray. Some words turn the corner of...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 4, 2015 | Prose & Poetry
One… or The Other …how feisty and pugnacious hummingbirds are. — Ohio Department of Natural Resources One: Of hummingbirds, loveliest of the summer, beauty of the free flying within the space of their so little life, I sing. ...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 3, 2015 | Prose & Poetry
A Broken Walker It hasn’t always been or even maybe, the starless crowding mercuric montage of age – teased out debris. Pummeled, spoken for, a kind of courage confused with garbage, excoriated, cursed as cure while being maintained....
by Helen Ivory | Apr 2, 2015 | Reviews
O’Brien’s debut collection War Reporter recently won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection. It deals with his relationship with the Pulitzer prize winning war photographer Paul Watson, exploring what drives him to take his camera...
