by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Wild Rufus after Elmore James ‘The Sky is Crying’ Wild Rufus played sax in the Duke of York jamming with Deano in the old tap room. Mostly twelve bars: Muddy Waters, Son House, Elmore James – I believe I’ll dust my broom. I snuck in late with my...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 2, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Bone & Breathless skin is missing liberation & violation usually ends de same way with your DNA lying on someone’s grass in 2005 de soil asked de sky if it could collect me de sky shunted its back peach & swollen de soil made room for...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Sunday. The day I worship at the hob and stove. Unholy music of the kitchen rocks from Spotify, my phone in a Pyrex jug speaker. Sweet Child of Mine. One is out running over the hills, far away from weekend crowds that...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Drowning We slept that summer in the small house Bedded in a meadow of foxgloves and thistles, Just a cry from the ocean — Everyone knew about the boy Dragged from the water onto the beach, His lungs pumped with kelp and fry —...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Extended Magic Cat Metaphor Once you disassemble it it’s all fucked up. Turns out just despair held it together. Blinky the magic cat laid sweets — paper-wrapped, coloured or plain, familiar or unknown like eggs for years, then one day Blinky broke:...
