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 ...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Outcrops Heaps topped by smaller rocks. The raffish angles of designer boulders. Jenga towers of tipsy stone. Lizard colony. Ombligo de Venus. Navelwort in paradise. Darkness; damp. Foxgloved fissures. Small pools filling fingerholds: finger...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 27, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Vaccine The needle hits the deltoid with a moon-cold urgency; its jolt of fluid is ice barely thawed. Relax – sharp scratch. I hold myself against this detergent-white light. On the journey home, my pupils dilate: for the first time in months, I...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 26, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Poetry Arm Today was all left-handed. I’ve slapped it on the wrist, wrapped what it’s written, hidden in a file, locked behind a password: a little bomb of bitterness I couldn’t post online. My left hand’s the clumsy one blundering on the...
