by Helen Ivory | Feb 4, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Daddy is a Mackerel Now something inside daddy snagged he tripped and tumbled down the spiral stairs down past ape and quadruped to splash deep in his fish self. finding no purchase in his silver eyes she finally recoiled from the horror of his...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 3, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Promises This year, I resolve, to travel once around the sun. To notice the moon’s faces, and the stars insistent percussion. I will eye myself in raindrops that cling to naked twigs, and elongate each moment. Anything is possible. This year, it will be...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 2, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
The Weight of a Father It was fairly simple. All they had to do was follow the mindless path of destruction through torn-up front yards and past broken streets signs to arrive at our front door. Dad was still passed out at the end of the hall and...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The card given out at his funeral has no obituary. No order of service. Just his name, curlicued and slant, year of birth, hyphen, year of death. Above that, an old print plate of his reproduced landscape-wise, its surface sectioned into eighths, each...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 31, 2019 | Reviews
Dylan Thomas believed that fine poetry is marked by words that ‘lift off the page’ and a prize winning pamphlet by Amy Kinsman fulfills this criteria beautifully. & ( Indigo Dreams ) is a collection of poems which leap of the...
