by Helen Ivory | May 21, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku Calendar January, fear Like a preacher, elsewhered, dubbed To a moonbeam howl February – wolf Lopes across rock-snarled borders Inhuman stone tongue March – willow-wand faith Unbridled, even tonight As the mouse roars by April –...
by Helen Ivory | May 20, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
The Big Outside For Ellis b 1/2/21 In the beginning there is light and the soft rhythmic boom of the dark stops. I open my mouth and become hunger. I call out and create a mother. Wherever I look, I bring the world into being. I make a man and a...
by Helen Ivory | May 19, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
content warning: rape He wrote on the ground (John 8:8) a finger in the dust grit under nail grubby sun-hardened skin little ridges in the soil stones pushed aside an earthy writing slate curled or straight I never knew my...
by Helen Ivory | May 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Salvatrix Mundi It’s hard to be Jesus with the housework to do and the world to care for all on her own. She’s stopped going to bed. Once the ironing’s done she’ll nod off in her chair. She wakes up about four alert for earthquakes or...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Sometimes, a Man Could Cry Sometimes, I just hold my head, clasping its wreck of metal. It is just enough to keep the spine and chest upright, just enough to wire the jaw into a fixed smile and fuse and screw up bones; just enough to keep up. The...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Roses Wielding secateurs on Saturday I hack at roses, urging the blackspot to be gone and setting the straggling thorns in check. My mind turns to you and how I trained you to eat the undergrowth, to chew meadowsweet, parade mushrooms like...
