by Helen Ivory | Sep 24, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
it’s cold outside & burning worlds fall you know see a sky a full collection i made & didn’t you sound a sad & bitter i said was there ever a further mile or other star this is not a final play the oceans where we hold the fibre mother...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 23, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
NIMBY and the Supermoon 2018 The window by her pillow has the best job in the house: it sneaks in day to kiss her awake to a tail-thumping heart. Curtains slice a piece of sky, twig-flecked, let her taste the creamy dawn shame it’s...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 22, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
overnight to london footnote: this tool does not provide fight in a nail salon on youtube (sings) moon river, wider than a mile ledged on a window sill……yeah right……… stick thin and miming and the real singer...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 19, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Galloping Horses We caught a moment of your underwater world. Galloping horses, the midwife said. In there there’s weird fishes and a submarine with a rotating light looking for life steadily; beep, beep, beep. You like to hide. At first on screen...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 18, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
extracts from dog 4. Dog is an amateur astronomer, I feign interest,
he dictates the curvature of the Earth. He had me measure the world on his back,
the radius seemed bent as dog’s spine....
by Helen Ivory | Sep 17, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
A Moment to Tell You The last few ends of rain wear out on a window. A bird with no reason to stop rushes past wet leaves, the many colours of dust sagging. Even the grass is heavy with apples. I smell through the glass, just as I hear you...
