by Helen Ivory | Aug 21, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Moongirl menstruates moongirl, plump and gibbous as a bee shiny pollen bleeding silver down her starwhite moongirl, shimmering gymnast each luminous clot a tumbling planet moongirl, astride basks in the glory of her deep silver moongirl, whispers...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
body where does all the dirt come from? I’m scared my dentist will say something is wrong I’m into skincare now over the hump of acne years everyone tells me to drink more water even the girls who have never had a spot swear by it my foot is...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Balance Now is not the time for Grandiloquence. Now is not the time To gorge on suppositions, Weigh alleged propositions Or become trapped in the miasma Of the imaginary. No. Now is the time To ascertain How much time alone is too much And how...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 18, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The frog’s princess I’ll start my story with the sad prologue of my ball sinking in the palace lake and being rescued by a talking frog. I thought I was dreaming, though I was awake, when he offered to retrieve my precious ball: a speedy dive is...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Frost Moon The frost moon, herald of winter rises over sea, slack before it heaves and turns true north, back to Arctic. On this shore I give it a fistful of sand, ask that I will hold fast, as fragments of crab, razor clam and glass sift between...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Another Me From The Heavens If blue is namely white and black is namely red and gold is transparent as crystal and light makes the soul smile forgetting the sun moon and stars and you were filled with wisdom, drunk for thousands of years and back...
