by Helen Ivory | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
How the Wych-elm Once Reached tall as the absentee house. How the girl moored her hands and heart charmed by riven bark. How its name was thrilling frightening as the adults disguised witches. How the woman returns...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Lovely Feet I dream I’m at the hospital massaging your feet, your tiny feet that I have freed from their tight white stockings and covered in aromatic oils, as your lover lies beside you stroking your lioness head which turns and gently purrs at...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Winter’s (love) sequence— We are in the bath, your hands around my back, mine around yours— everything covered in a fog. * The hills white under snow, you somewhat warm in a cardigan, corduroy, boots pressing upon the cold earth....
by Helen Ivory | Dec 4, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Rough Tor When fog falls over Rough Tor, the world creaks on the end of a string, its veils too flimsy, dancing like a threadbare kite on the wind, a farm here, there the trembling memories of a hill, the day coated all in white, its bright...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 3, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Snow’s Reset The roofs blend with the snow-laden clouds, borders softened so it’s only memory that differentiates my space from my neighbour’s. The wet smell confuses pets whose footprints meander over territorial edges, leave crazed patterns like...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 2, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Toughened Bark it takes a hefty blow sometimes to split you open a sharpened blade to split through years of tough old bark in the deeper channels feel how sap and resin thicken sap to carry nourishment keeping the woodiness supple resin to...
