by Helen Ivory | Oct 8, 2026 | Featured, Prose
Salvage By the third year, the sun had sorted the Japanese bottles from the Chinese ones. Kana went first, then the Chinese characters, then the English, the ink lifting off in that order every time. Under it, the plastic held its shape, white as...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 5, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Incarnation Every time I conjure a spell, offer a prayer in your memory – ask for your forgiveness for things I did not know, I should’ve known – ignorance not an acceptable reason for failing, my inability to see things, the wonder of it all –...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Memory and Sky In the search for sky the slip of landscape: blues and greens, browns and white clouds of paint, lost black mines. The sea’s a beast, a wild gatecrasher and breaker of the picturesque. If you drag your brush across the canvas,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Numinous You see, there is this fold, and this ridge, and this sweet hood, and this little shiny popping button, and this smooth silver-glistening, and this depth, and deep, deep within, there is something that touches you back. Math...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
egg her first was almost translucent light brown with dark freckles laid in the pot of a dying nasturtium a virgin birth in a pile of hay dropped and abandoned like it was nothing special Geraldine Stoneham lives in South Australia...
