by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
A Chapel in the Woods There is a chapel in the woods. We should have been married there. The vines and the growth overcoming the building Except for the doors that would open to welcome us. There is a cabin in the woods. We should have lived there...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
‘Once Upon a May Day Morning, a Father Takes His Three Daughters on a Greenline Bus Deep Into the Green Rolling Countryside of Kent.’ He packs a picnic, hard boiled eggs with the shell still on to protect them, tomatoes, crisps, ham...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Basic Anthropology You liked to break trees, one dry branch at a time, and test your full weight against the centuries inside. When the tree was gone, you longed for witnesses to understand your regret. You liked to burn books in a random sequence...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Eight hundred and four full moons I do not – cannot – quite recall How many full moons I actually have or haven’t seen, How many I have missed, So intent on the business of this world, Its instants and circumstances. Put it like this: I only...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Lord, grant me… On hot days, the back door stands open to the garden, to sudden wing flurries, sparrow chit-chat. By evening there are bluebottles upstairs, stupidly circling, banging themselves against the place the light comes from. I have been...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
The Fair Leaves Town The hum of early traffic resonates where skeletal rides seek egress on lorries bound for the next town, and the road opens like a wound, becomes a thoroughfare again. We view the marketplace as we would a post-festive room,...
