by Helen Ivory | Mar 6, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Diaspora I lost both my lovely uncles one after the other to another country. Jubilantly they had passed their examinations and once equipped with white coats and certificates they poised to join the gloried institutions only to find corridors...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 5, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Melt If a white bear’s weight tilts the floe where once he stood in balance with the ice― If he opens himself to a barely discernible scent of seal but it drifts off like sleet― If a bear pads the asphalt of a seaside town sallowed by streetlight...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 4, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Without you I won’t believe in ghosts but the day after they told me you had died, I saw you everywhere we had been. Not there in that dark garden shed with me as I built a gate, that startlingly first bright day of early summer but in India, that...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 2, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Paper Dolls She did well, my secret twin – kept us alive, deflected blows, absorbed each wound into our body, quiet as a tree. I didn’t notice her leave until the wind whistled in and a bird flew from my mouth. Later I unfolded myself like a chain...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 1, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
To a Good Night’s Sleep You know how it goes but never why or when – perhaps it’s all that cheese and caffeine or a black cat crossing but sure as broken eggs make omelettes you can bet your life that one night all your hidden quirks and...
by Prerana Kumar | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Little Monuments my brain is no longer full of pound coins paperbacks with my name on rainbow flags tax bills Instagram followers my brain is now Dad’s pierced left ear lobe that I touched for first and last time in chapel of rest to see...
