by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Chef (i.m. Kevin Higgins) You saw the world for what it was and responded with a flambé of possibility. You saw the charlatans for who they were and knew exactly the combination of spices to season them with before you roasted them. The truth was...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Circus We are the leave-takers, rolling our hearts in tents. Rootless, our life is soil, any soil. With the first flutters of red we drive a stake in a ground, peg ourselves to the here and now. Harlequin knows the grist of a place, instantly: takes his...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 11, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Postcard – Untitled Before Mark Rothko As the floor gives way, I’m a bird always burning up in the desert. Every few years, I tear off my layers. I eat the ashes of predecessors. I’m the torment of cells, neural connections. I’ve learned...
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...
