by Helen Ivory | Apr 16, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Elmira Sweetheart — On my slow morning walks I gather up twigs, the deadwood from hedges and sheets of dry bark from rotted trees; they look like torn pages from books; I snap fallen branches in half, to make excellent kindling to start raging fires,...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 15, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Turtle Into the green lagoon I dive deeper until The sandy bed is seen And the green weeds tickle The base of my shell and My clawed, paddle feet Paddle against the low waters of the waters. I am a passenger in this body, Within this shell, Slipping up...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 14, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Newton’s Third Law of Motion For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It was quarter to five by time I got finished at work and about five-ish when I’d got onto my metro home. I knew it was going to take eighteen minutes to travel the...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Mute In The Night Most nights I dream of trains. Platforms punctuate journeys with fleeting glances and slow motion moments; some stop – others just slow as they pass. In the waiting room, we bide our time, hoard it up so we’re rich with minutes, seconds...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 11, 2013 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Rob Stuart is a college lecturer, screenwriter and poet from London. His credits include Lighten Up Online, Magma and Snakeskin.
by Helen Ivory | Apr 9, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Cotinus Coggygria [koe-TY-nus koe-GIG-ree-ah] I was thinking about the point distance becomes long-distance between two lovers in the future, and how technology will speed everything up: the journey to her house or her journey to yours; when you...
