by Helen Ivory | Oct 21, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Then After a time of fires in oil drums, eddies of dog packs where the hospitals had been, first histories were published elsewhere, first conferences counted the spent cartridges. Wildflowers meantime came straggling back to cover the poisons,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
My Albatross and Me my albatross is an over-stretched suitcase spilling out stuff I must remember my albatross was small but she grew like Topsy now she will not fit back in her box my albatross is a story, a black and white movie, a steam train...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 19, 2022 | Featured, Prose
Skipping the Light Fantastic ‘You’d never believe it to look at her, but there goes Rita Pulaski, World Jump Rope Champion nineteen fifty-six,’ my grandmother said, pointing a pudgy finger at the window. ‘Really? Her with the two sticks?’ I said,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 18, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Containers From on this cliff top, I can clearly see the quarter-mile-long ship across the bay, a dark shape of unseen complexity. I am a sack of bags, with tubes that go between them, and with fine wires everywhere. I am the mind that feels this...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Rapprochement (Glosa) Maybe it happens one night, driving Through an unknown suburb, the realisation That nothing is going to change, the time Will never come for explanation – Too Late by Ruth...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Into the Forest Some of the liveries…are of people who do service so that they receive them as wages, such are the custodians of the palaces, the guardians of the royal temples, the pipers, the seizers of wolves… The Dialogue of the...
