by Helen Ivory | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Uncertainty Principle But though she kissed me as a child would do, She clung on a little longer than she needed to. Jake Thackray “The Kiss” Hold a rule beside her measured look. Precisely fix the time it took to meet and break away....
by Helen Ivory | Feb 13, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
By Nectan’s Well being unnatural he fixes his sight past the fields of bere and oat and the woods of birch, his goat-eyes watch two worlds at once he knows to boil henbane with bitter vetch so he can see what exiled angels scrawl on the bark of...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Unbound It was so quiet she could hear her hair grow, heartbeat stretch across measures, nails twist into mobius strips. She unlatched the window so the hair had somewhere to go, tumbling and snarling like water released in spring. He came every day –...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 11, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Making a new picture from another picture I cut a bright patch free sunlit ochre that I loved placed it high up in this picture ditched the grim grounding and from another picture salvaged the russet which had warmed me excised the violet shades...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 10, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Village Mela In one of those colourful stalls A gentle man with golden fingers Carves a wheelbarrow from broken wood With fine wheels and spokes, A toy you hold with string And pull along the village green. You are the owner of the universe All...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 9, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Fly I’m not looking where the others are seen something closer focus intensely, a relief, maybe just a fly but look notice the gleam of its body how pointed its wings are its comic crooked legs it’s made of many elements a flying saucer for a...
