by Helen Ivory | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Neuroleptics There goes the man with the paper face stretching his arms for takeoff, his cloak flapping open for flight. He knows every twig in these wooded grounds. He can float above every tree. Above him red squirrels chase each other across...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Imagining Green The leaf is the paradigmatic form of openness: life capable of being traversed by the world without being destroyed by it (The Life of Plants. A Metaphysics of Mixture. Emanuele Coccia.) I was imagining green light like two...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Tawny Owls I’ll take your owl, Paul, and Sylvia’s and raise you two, that call across the meadow on August nights; male and female: one twit, the other twoo. I won’t say which is which. No, I haven’t seen them, haven’t risked my bald pate, don’t...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Newgale You stand at shoreline watching. Unaware the tide advances, despite decades of life by the sea, you dip your toes in icy Atlantic swell. But decay has arrived as a rip tide – pulls you under, drags you out into the bay. The men throw a...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 4, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Plantation blues Morning light is warm quicksilver on the desert plateau of the high Monadhliath, bare stone and scoured earth the seed of man and winter. The upward flow of pines is genesis not rewilding, redcoat drumbeats on the drove road still...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 3, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Changeling Away over the hills the girl’s father is shapeshifting – grown grey and yellow, wheezing against the pillow’s soft sink, feet that have polkaed and gavotted, tangoed and waltzed vaulting him now, into the submission of the couch....
