by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Hunters in the Snow Pieter Breugel the Elder This is where the ground falls away And the hunters start their descent. Cold, tired and more-than-defeated They contemplate the gradient While their dogs nose their way through snow, Tails down, cold...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 9, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
The White Rose (i.m. members of the White Rose German resistance movement 1942-1943) To think when thought is forbidden. To love when taught to hate. To resist the surge of the crowd. To manoeuvre in a world of control. To speak when silence is...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 8, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Landscapes with Buses On both sides of the frontline, people buy and sell goods, occupy central squares and the shops are open. Buses run on schedule. Business as usual. Until noon. Fewer and fewer civilians in this remote, other town,...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 7, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Urban Chaos Part 7 Over and over, problems take the political route. Politician on TV: yes there’s urban chaos and we are seeing into it besides says another, it’s not just neighborhoods in decline, moral values descend the closer you...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 6, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Tenderness Drop a heart into a glass watch the glass start to expand place a lid or plate over its circular top; Hear the slowing beat pulsate allow oxygen to circulate. The heart will become an unripe cacti fresh and cold, bulging in liquid...
