by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Reimagination of Gravity Newton didn’t discover gravity The apple did. He had sat Under the tree for many Years, until the day the Apple fell. This is how we Betray nature. In this poem I plant a tree & sit under it For many years. The year Is...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
my friends are many-legged the silence is made up of the ticking of the clock that matches the slow drum of my heart. my sole companion is the empty-eyed stranger who seems to have gotten stuck inside the window, her hand always pressed against mine,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2025 | Featured, Prose
Second to None Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a reverie. He found himself, not in his apartment but in a dusty courthouse at the center of a nameless small town. The kind of town with cracked sidewalks, sagging...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
After the Storm With the completion of mindset my life is in order, two weeks after the day before. Anyone can aspire to cultural intelligence, feast on the corpse of public discourse but I’ve got the music to go with it. Despite feverish...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Venn diagram featuring working-class wages and lemons Those times my tongue becomes a lemon filling my mouth with bitter pith stoppering sound so it coagulates in my throat, becomes a stuck fruit; I must breathe through my nose in short, calm...
