by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
An Orange in the Dark I rolled an orange across daybreak; I waited for the moon to ripen. I held you close, felt your ear in my palm As I paced the candle-lit coffee table. The biscuits had gone stale again As buses crept under the open window—...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Celebration Overnight, the dour hill has been piped; in its place, a thickly iced, shimmering slice of pink-lit diamond-cake. And now, drizzled with a jewelled tumbletrickle of sprinkles, I can hear it squealing, unable to contain its joy at this...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 31, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a new year we will meet again on the other side Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku collection, ‘Random Blue Sparks’, is...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
We play Candy Crush We run upstairs and trace our fingers over Ariana Grande’s face. We hold fruit sweets to the light like crown jewels, we gum-up our fingers with orange segments from the market, zesty with possibility. We play Candy Crush. In...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas Games After the lunch he gets his folder of Christmas games. Ten copies he writes out each year. The file is spilling like a drooping accordion that swings down and open as he makes his way through rooms, looking for people to play. But...
