by Helen Ivory | Feb 9, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Fly I’m not looking where the others are seen something closer focus intensely, a relief, maybe just a fly but look notice the gleam of its body how pointed its wings are its comic crooked legs it’s made of many elements a flying saucer for a...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The poet disregards the soup she reencounters it on the hob at a merry boil not a slow simmer as instructed borscht like bubbling blood melds fingerlings, carrots, onions in garnet guise isn’t it enough that she peeled the beetroot palms, apron,...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Antonia Taylor is a British Cypriot communications strategist and poet. Her work has appeared in Propel, Ambit, Harana, Marble Magazine, Dear Reader, and Indelible Literary Journal among others. She is a Nine Arches Primers 2023 finalist. Follow her on Instagram at...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Tulip You seemed to be born blind. At first in cracked pot, in frosted compost Your leaves pined – jaded limp swords Fingering in, I could find no core, nothing that might bloom. So we passed the days. You grew lankier with the light. But still,...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 5, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Yours truly, If only my tongue were context then my teeth would be meaning and when I opened my mouth to eat I would find a story there each time. The one of the blue boy whose mother fed all the out-of-work-actors in the neighborhood but never...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 4, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Municipal Pool That particular, chemical clarity, sun into blue, ripples on the ceiling. Rare days when water rests between the ropes, unbroken and the lifeguard dreams by the open door. You slip in then, quiet, smooth – thinking otter,...
