by Helen Ivory | Oct 4, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Goat Keeper There is a hill with a house, goats graze in a green pasture. They are my responsibility When the righteous priest comes with his red ribbon I will run him through with a pitchfork, pin him to a tree before he touches one hair on one...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 3, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
I am recovering from the crying I did yesterday I thought about it downstairs felt the low hum of a migraine beginning to squeal I prefer falling down the stairs I prefer watching a knife drop from my hand and land in my nail bed I prefer taking...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Bay of Pigs Our mums pushed us on the swings and talked about the end of the world. Russians, they said, nuclear bombs, radioactive. What if? You never knew what might happen, bloody Commies, iron curtain, on telly. Ssh. The children. My mum...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
It It is the singularity of black holes a swarm of hummingbird hawk-moths the insatiable hunger of caterpillars smile of a camel, song of a nightingale the moon frail as the edge of a fingernail – It is dirty as a clam, economical as ants dark...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Tones A story in three remembered voices These were the voices which really seemed to shift things. She went, in her finals year, to a surgery, painted pre-war brown and cream, along from the Mumbles pier. There she heard the fat doctor, beaming...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Four Haiku * a date with myself inside the fortune cookie a love note * migraine… the storm fails to subside * museum tour my husband lingers at the kamasutra painting * renovation I refuse to remove the pigeon’s nest ...
