by Helen Ivory | Oct 16, 2018 | Word & Image
Action Poem Rob Stuart’s poems and short stories have been published in magazines, newspapers and webzines all over the world. He has also written the screenplays for several award-winning and internationally exhibited short films. His website can...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Tamar and Amnon for Alfonso García Valdecasas Moon wheeling across the sky, no water on the plain, hot summer now scattering seeds, talk is of tiger and flame. And miles above the roof beams, nerves of metal squeal, a twisted breeze comes blowing...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 14, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
I can feel trouble in my bones In my red, fringed bow ballerinas I can feel surfaces again hardness unyielding to my toes, each pebble conglomerated in the stub slabs of the business district each trip cobble defining my quartier’s streets. This...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 13, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Clash On nights like this May air strokes skin like lazy fingertips, familiar sounds nonchalantly step through speaker boxes; his voice rough and unsteady hangs comfortably in her air. She remembers she has a husband. Bodies agile against the...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 12, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
microscript At a tiny table, by a tiny window I play hangman (where Robert Walser composed one too many stories) We are guileless – like the spearhead of an army. One that sends its fellows by the thousands. Fodder. (or guileful- it works both...