by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Bus train bus 1. Fuse White lights in ash trees in a community green space remind me what that week did. I see the mechanics now because I’m in the front seat of the upper deck of the 97 with the lego brick of the stop bell a childish...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku * small boy under his feet skyscraper shadows * kitchen table at the master’s place a tiny spider * evening forest not quite big enough for all the shadows * Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides haiku (which...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Happiness in my lockdown sock drawer Test-tubes, conical flasks and molecules. Back to A Level Chemistry with Mr Cartwright we learn about magnetism with marker pen examples. A moon lander, planets and a telescope and I am back in my childhood...
by Kate Birch | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
my mother is with the stars my mother is with the stars the missing buckle on Orion’s belt holding my favourite constellation in check – the Universe will be organised against its will – my Earth in chaos, still Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com)...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Mrs McNab All of a sudden, would Mrs McNab see that the house was ready, one of the young ladies wrote…Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse. She comes as summoned, care taker with a leer, a lurch, a grinding of boots on shingle, tears cobweb veils of...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Night A gymnasium with crepe paper and leather soles, an iron box with only singles, rain without the drop, a clever dance where the floor taps our shoes. I cling to your scapula, your hand, like clothespins, like darkness, following the...
