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...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Not a found poem But a purchased one – To find Ewrop on a single cup Despite the English on top – Re use duce cycle Birziklatu Genbruge Endurvinna And then the more familiar – Recycle Recycler Recycleren Recyceln Till there...
by Kate Birch | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Self-Portrait as Road Runner You with your elaborate schemes of entrapment, your hunting parties, moonshine and shot-gun weddings, your Sunday-school socials for girls to glue bird seed and pasta on prayer plaques, sew aprons with Singers– this...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Winter Commute I. I have not known how to shape This poem— I found it, drowsy, Quarter-to-six in winter In the cold of an unfinished floor And the cold of the tap And the cold of my pale extremities Exposed on all these fronts I found it in the...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 1, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Weighing yourself in the dark at Christmas in your parents’ house You do not know how to weigh yourself at Christmas in your parents’ house, now it is no longer yours. You are used to standing naked each day in your flat with closed blinds. The...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 31, 2023 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Knots When I remember the white paint of the door frame it’s not my tiny 8-year-old hands that grip it, steadying the spinning top of my chest. It’s not with those hands I feel the squeak of paint under fingertips, not with that thumb...
