by Helen Ivory | Oct 9, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
five tanka bomb threat at the Wal-mart— customers and associates shivering under the autumn sky kisses like bruises and the dark shadow of memory waking at my accustomed hour, a dream of rain still damp on the bark of...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 8, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
The Great Storm So the three of us are sat there like Compo, Foggy and Clegg, on the trunk of a storm-wrenched oak between Gallows Pond and the sugar-maple plantation starting to turn; sharing a joint and genial nonsense. Mike relates what happened when...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 29, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Five Haiku summer air thickens two fruit bats make love under the streetlight numb about love the honeybee rejects its first flower first spider on the moon – he on my yellow bathroom wall Roman arch...
by Helen Ivory | May 23, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
bringing up baby again she falls. but nothing’s broken and she seems okay. still i go a little crazy. i look around for a nurse. then grab my phone. the big screen is turned up super loud. as usual. she tells me to be quiet and points at the...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 28, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* My hat can keep out evil and radio waves, silver foil and wool. Padrika Tarrant’s novel The Knife Drawer was shortlisted for the 2012 Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her second book of short stories The Fates of the Animals will be...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 20, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Haiku The sun’s a God’s button. Perhaps at some point He’ll come back to pick it up. * * * March. Birds are singing. I too would like to sit beside them and I’d sing But I’m afraid the branch would break. * * * At midnight when I left, it rained....
