by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Ledger In the left hand column she writes He’s married in the right hand column she writes My skin is beached against the stone wall of you in the left hand column she writes He sets his alarm for 1715 In the right hand column she writes When...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 9, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Lovers and Trees In the evening trees become sad I climbed on them like a metaphor, later it transpired they were our anthropological versions organic companions shadowing imagine how many lovers have sat under them moaning the mysteries how many...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 8, 2024 | Featured, Prose
Into the Hills He found himself in the mountains because he had no intention of being near the beach. It was summer and he was dry. With friends, he had seen the sea, water, the Thames, so many times over the past weeks that he had driven himself...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 7, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Six weeks after diagnosis I stayed away out of respect for your daughters. You followed the hearse with your father and the girls. He couldn’t stay within the boundaries of himself. Her friend Angie broke down reading, the celebrant had to help....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 6, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Thought Experiment The clock has lost all its numbers. I wake inside an Einstein thought experiment, where my bones defy gravity and get sucked what some call “up.” I’ve only time to grab from beside the bed where we’re sleeping our copy of Rovelli’s...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 5, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
My List Poem of the All-Important Trish, Kindness, A small family of wildflowers announcing themselves in an abandoned pot, Morning sun warming barley fields at Castletown House Estate, A grounded fledgling glaring defiance as I gently inquire of...
