by Helen Ivory | Mar 5, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Broken cable In the middle of the bright Atlantic Floating on the swell between island volcanoes Looking past reflective surface tension To silvered gas bubbles beneath catching the light And across the issuing rift A long snake of data cable Broken...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 4, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
from Cancer Diary 2 20 May 2015 10:54: the crazy logic of my dreamscape lingers to mid-morning the brown bowl is cracked crazed down its left side — I unpack my life next in my luggage — the delicate cardigan unravels before my eyes so we pitch our tent...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 3, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
An Ode To Hilary As though in a dream the cat outside moves above and around us as you sleep invisible to all but my ears as I work at my drawing board planning to change the world in Glen Street all those years ago But now we are old and I still...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 2, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
Hatch Into Hell Demons shaving their backs, hot-wiring stolen Porches, pissing in the baby’s hair. Demons screwing with the Union, their skulls on backwards, their talons of tin and bloodied orifices. Demons thrashing under the pillows, and yet we...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 1, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
Lottie’s many mistakes The Burning of the Sausages was just the latest in a series of mistakes that Lottie had made that day. The first, the Forgetting to Set the Alarm, had technically been made the night before, but because it had only come to...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 28, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Steady My Emotion Steady my emotion Like the ocean on a stary night Like a tattered kite In the breeze Steady my emotion Let me be led into empty space filled with love Let ocean of white blood snake out from my Chest through cupid pierced holes...
