by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Portrait You notice the nose: webbed veins spritzed with little flicks of red, purple blotches daubed with a palette-knife, broken ends where blood-vessels gave up the ghost. You see the waistcoat bristling Harris Tweed, the label peeking out just...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 2, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Still Life of Fish and Bird One day a fish swam away and the river ran dry, and the lone bird, sitting in a tree, flew off and took the whole sky with it. Jason Ryberg lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
First Funeral Fascinated by the priest’s teeth I don’t realise I’m kicking the pew in front with a restless foot until someone taps me sharply on the knee. I’m near the coffin on its trestles and a plaster Jesus whose wounds shed drops of hard...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
STEMs When I was 12, I knew the weight of a human head. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (a bit of dark comedy). It grew from there. The curiosity. The calculations. But, perhaps, that’s not true. 4 years before that, The Magic School Bus taught me the...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Broad-blotch Drill (a.k.a. Orange-spot Daisy Moth) By what rough science were you given this migraine of a name, which starts as a spillage on the workshop floor and ends so gratingly? Alison Pritchard is from Derbyshire and mostly...
