by Fathima Zahra | Dec 11, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Doors My parents’ house became a place of closed white doors, where sound hung spare and echoes found no junk or clutter to rest themselves upon. You move quietly, in a house like that, learn side-feet, stop-breath, corner-pause, learn to turn reverberating...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Homecoming Winter dusk soughs in, dark clouds threaten, tangle her wool. She sets down his heavy gansy, the jumper finished at last. A memory, that memory, sharp as now, catches her. Him so handsome on the shore that night, her so forgetful...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 9, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Black on Black Black is the colour inside black light on blackened brick and slats coaldust and creosote those sightless eyes black as his coalman’s vest and grimy coalbent back deep in a shed where he stacks cold...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 8, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Singing Lessons for Beginners Necessity, that scold’s bridle, held her humble and mean, So that she no longer spoke, just looked – Her world reduced to a search for special offers, Fluorescent beacons that steered her far from Shelves...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 7, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Astral Projection Mrs Norris had thought ascension would be whirligig rides in bright violet rays, as the training books all implied. She worked hard on her technique diligently preparing an inner world, a kaleidoscopic version of her garden, neat...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 6, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
All that unpicking at the mercy of wind The tide unpleats from her godet, zig-zags in running stitch round the base of the côtil. Her quick fingers unravel raw edges, unpin seed potatoes, rip daffodil seams. She pulls hems from fence posts, tacks...
