by Helen Ivory | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Song of the Scans This is the song of the cells’ soft throb, the quivering coherences, their shuffling the profit and loss of life, to have and to hold. This is the trace on the scan, clouds, miasma of tissue, the ghostings of bone. And this...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Witch No man can hold me. See – I blur the line between days, inhabit that space between sleep and wakefulness. The blue hour’s lung swells – Exhales – past fresh-laid hedges with their dark-ditched waters stirred by breath I...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Lochan In the circle of its trees the lochan shines midnight silk. I could be a lily printed on its sheen but silt would fill my hair if I floated so I dip only my body as I swim and when I scramble out naked, every spike of peach fuzz is coated....
by Helen Ivory | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
symptoms she is aggregate concrete and grit held together in a human shape lying on her side knees drawn up flesh tensing to stone and tendons in flames the weight of her body pressed into the mattress leaves a shallow hollow once she’s gone a...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
crow’s landing glimmer blades the field’s lightly fogged grass green struggles through autumnal vague chill flop a crow drops in black flurry sky-fall awkward hops forward eye-dark clever Martin Potter...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 11, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Riddles Outside the Berber tent the poet and I contemplate the boundless Sahara sky. And I wonder how I got here. No bedtime stories, children’s classics neglected, just weekly comics I learned to read myself. My curiosity deemed dangerous in...
