by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
I Am the Dreaming Herpetogaster Chimera : Painting by Kathleen Bryson I Am the Dreaming Herpetogaster Chimera I am the dreaming herpetogaster chimera and I am part-and-parcel of the impossible animals project. My cherry-blossoming phallic self obviously dubbed...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Doppelgänger I’ve seen dozens of you about the Fylde, face all vape, fatigue, some wild sense of beard, black hair to border it all. Oiled up Kieran, out cold in the ring; pensive Kieran, pacing the promenade; I’ll have spent my own self in this...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Bird The bird crept up on him, threw its voice into an empty tree, he started to notice the aliveness of things, wondered how he had slept through his adult life without ever having inhabited a bush. The bird followed him into a glade,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Girl Awaits the Psychic Investigators They’re late. The table is laid with a clean cloth, all normal and neat. Our visitors, city men, may find it hard to navigate the path but we can wait. They hope to gather evidence of a haunting; whether he’ll...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Love is… …inconvenient. Love is untidy. Love is relentless, ruthless and rapacious. Done well, it’s hilarious, playful and redemptive – Gina Barreca (for Carrie) We don’t decide who we love. Who we hate, yes, who we’re jealous of, but never...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 13, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Alex Stolis has had poems published in numerous journals. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of...
