by Helen Ivory | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Hooking Up Civilization writ large shouts “all roads lead to Rome.” Civilization writ small builds the roads. The paper clip’s one of the latter, a civilizational bit player that resembles all the other clips swimming in the jar. Its...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
heal with careful fingers i fashion unraveling blood vessels into nets that haul life to the surface over and over again Aaliyah Cassim is a twenty-one year old university student who enjoys writing poetry and...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The View From the Ambulance is limited, by design. Strapped securely the dislocation, the shabby franchise- ification of high street, signage blinking by, the discomfort: this wasn’t here before – is dulled. Everything looks old already,...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Gannets I drive from your apartment to pick up a friend of a friend from the train station, take them to Muriwai to see the gannets. It is a warm day but there’s a bite in the air. My passenger is dressed for winter. She removes her seatbelt on...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Homing Pigeon From the high window ledge of the house next door, he looks down into our kitchen. Two days since he landed, and whether we dance to the radio or open a newspaper, whether we chatter about nothing or argue over whose turn to cook,...
