by Helen Ivory | Sep 6, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Akademichna Street is bombed-out flats, is the hot-pink Sweet Bakery Café, is straggly new-planted trees, is infantry quaffing cappuccino, is the community hub spilling ragged donations, is fuchsia velvet armchairs, is the balcony with the...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Through Both The second time something slips from his hand, he does not move right away. He studies the distance between intention and consequence. It looks smaller than it behaves. A nurse passes the doorway without stopping. There is no urgency...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Neveralways —him— Never shows up late to a single thing he’s invited to Always brings the most thoughtful and carefully curated and perfect gift Never shows up early and never once overstays his welcome Always appears well groomed and clean and...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Fallen Angel This is just a woman, sticking her life back together after years spent recovering. But the sky blackens, everything grows dark and minor. Unasked for, he appears again. What instruments does the demon use? Metal spoons on...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Hive What you are – bodied light, a store of oil a hive of warm blood chemicals flooding a brain, calculating a furnace filament of awareness in a palpating dark a treeless dark a stone-edged dark coal river dark. Flesh and its impermanence....
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Aug 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
End of a World In the back of the taxi on my way to the hospital, thighs clenched together, the driver asked me, You visiting someone there? Yes, I said. I am visiting a friend. When I get there, I will tell my friend that I was watching The...
