by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Waste There’s more waste than we use for the things we ordinarily use waste for, such as piling it on barges and sending them out to sea, tucking it under the surface like a layer of insulation, diamonds were waste once, and diamonds are valuable,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Just in Case You’d Forgotten there are some lives lived poolside and others that mostly consist of a bent back in a field – some are chauffeured some are piled into the backs of trucks driven fifty miles from border to farm on rough roads –...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
lightning flashes everyone stands still * doves balance on telephone wires girls play jump rope * wall of windows carved out of red brick see no evil Diane Webster’s haiku/senryu have appeared in failed haiku, Kokako, Enchanted...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
To the Litten Tree Morning sees droplets of spittle flicked over foraging insects. Down hind legs, hidden among the leaves, the sated dump fresh honeydew and trees weep sugar. Sweet hurt. Little graces matter. The bus drivers know us, let us smoke...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Bats You are pleased to see me in my gothic T-shirt – those bats, you say, have been your friends. Throughout the months you think you’ve been here, they have perched above your bed, protectors, telling you by sonar, not to fear. Without them, you...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 1, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Mark Wyatt now lives in the UK after teaching overseas. His work has recently appeared in Exterminating Angel, Greyhound Journal, Ink Sweat and Tears, Osmosis, Sontag Mag, Streetcake Magazine, and Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time. More here:...
