by Helen Ivory | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Ice Maiden speaks whale, speaks star breathes in — tight as a tomb breathes out — splintered crackle snow falls — a silvery kintsugi fooling no-one she wants to be alone with her ice shroud to think slow thoughts drink from snow’s thickening...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Anne Askew & Amber Heard Plain speaking a woman of few words, is a gift of God (Sirach 26:14) Rack and stretch her, loosen flesh from bone. A jointed bird will not squawk. Each turn and pull will tighten the denial in her lips. Pop the sockets...
by Kate Birch | Mar 8, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
34 Symptoms of the Menopause A woman somewhere is typing on the internet my heart wakes me up like clockwork. Now, another woman – my whole body feels like a bee box too small for the bees. At 3am, a woman Googles ...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 7, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
By the Horns At breakfast my man sticks a purple magnolia bud in my soft boiled egg. The flower opens, distilling to lilac. On my autumn birthday he wrings the necks of seven swallow-wings to gift me the witch’s butter wobbling like an orange nebula...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Lost Light Sometimes I’m surprised there’s light in dark places, those corridors, those alleys where you wouldn’t stray if you didn’t need or here in this prefab house I walk past once a week with the dog—left lost at the end of a lane to go...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Leadbelt Trends of lead, silver, copper, and zinc vein the middle of Missouri. Precious or base, the DNR holds dominion. For centuries, Missouri lead fed the muzzles of European wars, then American, then world. Across the river, in Alton, where a...
