by Prerana Kumar | May 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Archive of a friend’s tenderness For Luke You made red velvet cupcakes to mark some minor victory of mine. Without the egg and dairy, you compensated with sugar and I think I’m still high off it now. Though you find yourself too ill to practice...
by Helen Ivory | May 21, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku Calendar January, fear Like a preacher, elsewhered, dubbed To a moonbeam howl February – wolf Lopes across rock-snarled borders Inhuman stone tongue March – willow-wand faith Unbridled, even tonight As the mouse roars by April –...
by Helen Ivory | May 20, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
The Big Outside For Ellis b 1/2/21 In the beginning there is light and the soft rhythmic boom of the dark stops. I open my mouth and become hunger. I call out and create a mother. Wherever I look, I bring the world into being. I make a man and a...
by Helen Ivory | May 19, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
content warning: rape He wrote on the ground (John 8:8) a finger in the dust grit under nail grubby sun-hardened skin little ridges in the soil stones pushed aside an earthy writing slate curled or straight I never knew my...
by Helen Ivory | May 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Salvatrix Mundi It’s hard to be Jesus with the housework to do and the world to care for all on her own. She’s stopped going to bed. Once the ironing’s done she’ll nod off in her chair. She wakes up about four alert for earthquakes or...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Sometimes, a Man Could Cry Sometimes, I just hold my head, clasping its wreck of metal. It is just enough to keep the spine and chest upright, just enough to wire the jaw into a fixed smile and fuse and screw up bones; just enough to keep up. The...
