by Helen Ivory | May 6, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Short-lived After his baby son died he strapped a tumble dryer to his back and ran the roads around the village. Stocky, shaved head, blue shorts and vest, white socks in black Nike trainers. Transformed into Tumble Dryer Man he raised thousands...
by Helen Ivory | May 5, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Everything Changed except our Way of Thinking I’m always thinking about how I can find more human beings. Or how I can have a better relationship with a human being. Why you are you. And I am I. And why that should be a problem. It...
by Helen Ivory | May 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Web Sorry, but I’ve stopped cleaning the windows. Or I guess I’m not cleaning that one pane of the window that looks in over the living room. I’m leaving it for the spider with the round body like a peanut and the striped legs who has made her web...
by Helen Ivory | May 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Wildflowers No one has ever told me to Go back to where you came from Perhaps it’s because I look like I’m just passing through They know I know I don’t look like I belong here I fall into the category of guest The perpetual rambler A forever...
by Helen Ivory | May 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Muckle Flugga Unmoored on an ocean of heather no wind to pluck the strings of the aeolian harp Policed by the unsettling glare of nesting great skuas we tread the narrow path The boardwalk rises and falls under a sky empty and scoured of song To...
by Helen Ivory | May 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Morning Beach in Gopalpur Those night boats are back. Fishermen string their nets Counting fresh catch. The fish stink. Flies buzz around crabs. They are knocking hammer on wood. I want to take a few steps more To see what’s going on – Find them...
