by Helen Ivory | Apr 27, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Mental Health Animals Between us your depression and my anxiety; such slippery things to articulate – yet I try. You, a creature sat curled into himself, naked, muscled, not a weak man but a hare-man. Arms folded, long ears and face drooped: blocking out...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 22, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
But During the Medicine Round A tablet missed the medicine pot and skittered across the clinic room floor. I picked it up, rolled it between my fingers. It was not a gelatine pod or a chalky pill. Thin, leathery roots hung from its bottom. Two...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
The Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for March 2016 is ‘…and the heart a broken bell’ by john sweet: b. 1968, a believer in sunlight and...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 16, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Me, Me, Me Sometimes I feel like a stranger in the town called Me. I enter a bar and all the other me fall silent. The barman is familiar, he reminds me of me when I was younger. “Shandy” I say and he shakes his head without speaking. “It’s funny”...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 13, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Palindrome Existence Sometimes when I feel alone, So I find a clean bus stop to stand by and wait, Perhaps the bus will remind me Of where to go Maybe it’s fate- I contemplate. Maybe it’s fate- Of where to go Perhaps I’ll know if...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 30, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Future My children think they know you as they prepare statements to gain entry into the next of what you have in store. They return each night with requests for homework and parties which bulge in their bags indistinguishably. Perhaps you look on...
