by Helen Ivory | Mar 17, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Hummingbird Hawk Moth What were these fairies called before we knew of hummingbirds? Bumblebee moth because of the size? Reed-nose moth because of the proboscis? I fancy Garden-sprite, Hoverling, tiny Vanguard from the Realm of Humm, Flit-wing,...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
On Diamond Hill I didn’t think of you once as I climbed past stunted willows straggles of gorse there was no burning bush but when light poured through each stone step glittered and I heard crystals of song spilling from pipits’ throats it wasn’t...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lavoisier’s Law For Mark Matter cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed. I think of this as I pour the almost white ash from the green plastic container that came in the post into the vibrant red metal urn I have ready. I place it on your...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Ceilings just as the night sky shifts beyond the minds of the animals outside the ceilings we are pressed beneath change in aspect & colour each evening they drop a little closer in rooms that carry us from one year to the next we float below water stains...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Notes from nature on how to survive this: 1. Learn crypsis and mimesis be a gecko or a mossy frog 2. Method actors sway like dead-leaf mantises on branches 3. Spikes are effective, mollusc shells cumbersome 4. Warning! sea urchins maim and poison...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Out of the Ash We tore it all down just to watch it burn, standing in that alley of forgotten refuse. No one wanted it, no one needed it, so boombox and cigarettes, bottles and pipes, we ran riot with the fire, unrestrained screams and smoke...
