by Helen Ivory | Jul 10, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Grease 2 the sidewalks are shoveled but there you are in the middle of the road as always you trudge through a river of maple syrup and the delivery truck comes ever closer Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 9, 2022 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
sky, sea and sand … in light and palm shadow old dog and me * a face in the care home window sliver of moon * obituaries circled in his week-old newspaper … deep winter * dipping in the mountain lake me and spring moon * thunder-leaden...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Lampedusa I know this is risky and that I will probably lose the boat, but the shipwrecked on board are exhausted, I will bring them to safety. Video released by Sea-Watch, Guardian For the 43 souls waiting in the port; for lampas the torch,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
circumference words do not suit do not fit the towns i travel to i’ve this habit of locating new neighbours with different physiognomies * always there are uniforms on the march intractable comic heroes in animal disguises i say very little i...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Alone at the New Road Hotel He is right to suspect me of infidelity, there will be other rooms, there have been rooms before. At the old textile factory turned hip hotel, in Whitechapel’s tatty bravado, as the brutal heat is sucked from the day...
