by Helen Ivory | Nov 10, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
calm river again, his fishing line caught on a tree * raindrops slide down the window death in the family * thick clouds snowflakes dot my dog’s fur * breaking clouds flower petals pasted to my windshield * Christmas dinner with Mom’s new...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Sarsaparilla Road travels through swamps and reeds, over a black water creek and a narrow bridge, past the swift river with all of its snags and eddies, through the winding gorge of slippery-back slopes, scarps of limestone and galloping gorse to...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 8, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Location of Incident Not in that parking lot, not in that residential area, not in that blue car splashed with mud. Not in that leather backseat — fingernail torn. Not in that stuffy air clouding windows. And not — not in this heart. Yet — not not...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 7, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Mythopolitics we make sure to pack a deck of cards for the train, or a sunday afternoon visit to the park. the cards will give our hands something tangible to do, and that thing should be as far away from Productive as possible, for that is the...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Taḋg Paul is a queer poet, former LGBTQ+ rights campaigner, and software developer. In 2022, an injury rendered him quadriplegic. During hospitalization and rehab he rekindled a love for writing poetry. Today he volunteers at Fighting Words mentoring...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Beef Rendang Hey kid, this won’t mean that much to you yet, but I didn’t taste my first proper curry till at least twenty-one—if we ignore Friday-night jar-based meals your Gran assembled, a few sultanas mixed in to make things more exotic. And...
