by Helen Ivory | Sep 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Shedding Annamakerrig It begins high up the chestnut tree with leaves on the twigs on the tips of branches where sap has slowed. Turning amber carried by the breeze they touch the earth, rest on the grass where autumn begins Tim...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Triplet 1. From this far-side apartment you watch jarul leaves darkening with the seasons, progenies from the shoots’ threads. Footprints of your ancestors beckon to you, the assemblies of daisies are blooming on the balcony. Sunlight drizzles in...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 20, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Drumbledrane Determined, you smash against the window I have to admire you in your striped suit All the worries of the world pass you by Just to keep the Queen and Pooh bear happy. Masking yourself between odd magic tricks The perfect worker,...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 19, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The sea happens to me today not because I’m the woman in the bakers brusque turned rude or the peaches still hard in the bowl skin-touched with mould I need a reassemble immersion my flamingo of balance is stuck on a slope of rough...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
My Little LeBron For my nephew Sunlight saunters in long, thin wires through the fallow field of my bedroom. You approach, a migrating heron in a runny yolk collar and suntanned shorts, a white-light emissary of hope. Your nimble night eyes bore...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Dinosaur Footprints Tennyson Monument (The Needles), Isle of Wight I’m waiting for news I don’t want to talk about and scrolling through old photos to escape. After some swipes, I see you walking away. From my perspective, the path looks up – wide...
