by Helen Ivory | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Crowdsourced doctor said the signs were exit car park X-ray and Costa an extra shot stay strong anyway that blood’s gone off to Glasgow wasn’t very old googled it nervous of course not sure which floor we’re on the road to cappuccino yes...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
* sparrows at work on the skylight * laptops sending handshakes from kitchen table * edges of dawn.. goodbyes litter sidewalks * internet dooms day scrolling in lockdown Gopal Lahiri is a Kolkata- based bilingual poet, critic,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Home Comfort The village now has broadband: it’s easy to work from home, to cut and paste a spreadsheet, play with the Xbox, reel in, on a short cyber-thread a boxvan from the nearest town laden with super-fruit and exotic bread. Some still walk...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Vertigo Approaching midnight and the gouges of a mountain lean over us, weeping boulders. Each bend is a hook, hauling us higher. The car howls like a colicky child. I grip the door, you tug at the wheel, a cracked silence thrumming about whose...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Our Stories Have Been Told To Us Our stories have been told to us, worse we told them, wove them in and out our lives, back and forth and last and first our stories have been told to us, worse to pull them out leaves an absence, a curse, though...
