by Helen Ivory | Jun 30, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Beside the artist’s pool Small birds brink the garden hedge its glossy tall green no shady barrier more a plaything to rise up and over their gaze wedded to the pool’s eye where they execute one dip-up motion the pool crying its lyric of white and...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 29, 2019 | Reviews
“the ideal reader is one who is in love with the writer” Chris Kraus, I Love Dick the first time I read the poems I am in the library, trying to finish something that I am in the middle of the end of at that point. and we are practicing supporting each...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 28, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Road to Kars Mevlana, or Rumi, Sufi poet and mystic, 1207-1273 spent much of his life in Turkey, where his tomb is still revered. Mevlana’s poems are also set to music. We’ve tried every trick. Gathered around the guts, black tubing,...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 25, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Cravings I once grew old, And my senses vanished one by one. The day came When I could not taste pomegranates, The next, I could not hear The wind clonking in the rigging. The seashore felt like a surging slug. Pylons lost their fascination. Take...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 24, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Mornings I am downstairs in the kitchen, my school clothes are cold on me. l pull at a drawer, I open a cupboard. I think you are asleep upstairs. I set my bowl and spoon on the table. I see the cereal in a pool of milk. I move the sugar bowl and...
