by Helen Ivory | Mar 10, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Union This marriage was not meant to happen, too hasty, driven by needing to make everything right. Late night urge to clean my grandmother’s saucepans, to rekindle how it was to be hearthside with her. Too keen and desperate, now look at...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dangerous Bird She wanted grace. she wanted to feel her limbs lightweight to know flight without wings where light was dim & bass louder than bodies hitting ground. she once saw her body hitting ground purposefully, carefully planned &...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
content warning: gynaecological examination Naming of Parts (after Henry Reed) Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday we had no idea they would need to be named. Two students avoid my...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Door I opened the door A girl stood there her blonde hair drifting in the wind She said My mother told me not to go to the mountains she said there is nothing to eat in the mountains and she said I will get lost in the mountains and I will slip...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 6, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Diaspora I lost both my lovely uncles one after the other to another country. Jubilantly they had passed their examinations and once equipped with white coats and certificates they poised to join the gloried institutions only to find corridors...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 5, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Melt If a white bear’s weight tilts the floe where once he stood in balance with the ice― If he opens himself to a barely discernible scent of seal but it drifts off like sleet― If a bear pads the asphalt of a seaside town sallowed by streetlight...
