by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
a grief of ghosts atlas bear black-footed ferret cape lion dire wolf eastern lowland gorilla foothill frog galápagos penguin heath hen irish elk japanese otter kākāpo laughing owl maui dolphin north atlantic right whale one-stripe opossum painted...
by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Messages, Signs, Codes This morning – Blackstar, Bowie, those jazz swan songs sputtering from the CD player, wild trumpets that convulse through negative space. Funny, coincidences like that; awoke to a bonewrong feeling, my senses pricked like...
by Helen Ivory | May 13, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
skin the pool holds my face my breath ripples the water creases my skin settles still again my skin water skin sky skin all that holds us in Jane Pearn’s poems and short stories have appeared in several print and online...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Miss Betina Wauchope Disappears From the 1927 painting ‘Interior: Orange Blind’ by FCB Cadell. The single crimson rose she wears in her lapel, to test his imperfections, draws him into detail; pointing a thinner brush at her wintery cheeks, the...
by Helen Ivory | May 10, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Stop When the half-light drops below the horizon the birth of darkness comes and I can see myself in the mirror of the moon madness shining in the moonlight The birdsong gone The hedges silent The world edges to a place of no return and I’m trying...
by Helen Ivory | May 9, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
How to master the air walk dance craze My mother died seven years ago, but last night she had a message for me. The mechanics are irrelevant, what she gave stays with me: the word: dancing. It makes sense, I always pictured her released back into...
