by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Through Both The second time something slips from his hand, he does not move right away. He studies the distance between intention and consequence. It looks smaller than it behaves. A nurse passes the doorway without stopping. There is no urgency...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Neveralways —him— Never shows up late to a single thing he’s invited to Always brings the most thoughtful and carefully curated and perfect gift Never shows up early and never once overstays his welcome Always appears well groomed and clean and...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Fallen Angel This is just a woman, sticking her life back together after years spent recovering. But the sky blackens, everything grows dark and minor. Unasked for, he appears again. What instruments does the demon use? Metal spoons on...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Hive What you are – bodied light, a store of oil a hive of warm blood chemicals flooding a brain, calculating a furnace filament of awareness in a palpating dark a treeless dark a stone-edged dark coal river dark. Flesh and its impermanence....
by Helen Ivory | Aug 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Meaningless sex Twenty- something sex are bodies. thrown down like sophomore prose. Unedited nonsense that almost meant little. Look at our quarry of pointless stars. Davy-lamps in solar system of death Noone writes about God when she rested. I...
