by Helen Ivory | Oct 14, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
A Memory Moves Me On (Teenage Years) Teenage years everything begins it never ends Berries shout my name at the fruit stall I hear a voice sing more than words, see the cross of his cheekbones, the shade of his hair. I save his image to a locked...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 13, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Minder Care is a state in which something does matter – Rollo May I didn’t know what to do with all my dad’s love so, I minded it for him fully intending to give it back one day. Thing is, that day never arrived, the time never seemed right and...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 12, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Testing the mettle Ther was no man, for peril, dorste hym touche. A Sheffeld thwitel baar he in his hose. The Reeves Tale, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer. Such a knife, a real Et Tu Brute number. Bone handled, incisive. Decades of marriage had whetted...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The art of cutting and stitching My mother’s knife made the first cuts – she removed my fertile light bulbs, then stuffed my womb with shredded tissues. Not cruelty, you understand, but failed protection. Men have still hacked and moulded. A chop,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 10, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Serenity Prayer god grant us the serenity / to accept the things we cannot change / the courage to change the / things we can / and the wisdom to know el differencio / such as / true Heinz ketchup / vs Aldi home brand / the subtle grief of budget...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Four-Leaf Clover We searched so long for that clover. Every time the sun shone we scoured the fields and woods, running past the children playing with skipping ropes and hula hoops. Then you came to me and said you found one. The tape transparent...
