by Helen Ivory | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Bonding I carried you home as if you were an extra bag I might have required while taking my time over shopping — both of us newly hatched on the sun-filled hospital ward. By the time I arrived in the kitchen, the men had already begun on the...
by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
This poem was first published on IS&T on 15th July 2018. Rose of Jericho I am waiting for water; do not blame my Father though he made me a curling spine of dried roots. In a home not built for foliage he did his fatherly duty to pass on only what is necessary to...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Confessions to a neurologist When it started, I’d tip my chin down to my chest, loving the sensation of my body buzzing. I’d wake, fall to the wall, panic crawl to the loo, ask my wife if my palms were really burning hot I choke on nothing but...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 16, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Sugar Daddy The week before Christmas, my friend arranged a blind date for me. In retrospect, she wanted to replace herself with me. Oysters, lobster thermidor, sherry trifle with silky custard in the Savoy Grill. He flattered, flirted, cupped me...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 15, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
At Home with Long John Silver My mother told me to never suffer fools. “Never suffer fools” she’d say and she hit me round the head. I had an intolerable migraine that stopped me getting out of bed. “Never suffer...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dream witch Clearing out clutter before Christmas I pick up the figure my daughter made in October; clay skull on stick body yellow corn kernel eyes and crooked mouth pressed in by small fingers, dried brown corn silk hair under a crown of leaves...
