I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail
wrapped like second skin.
—Life in Suspension
Publications in Literary Journals
The dream opens forgotten realms of creation.
I think that’s what time is. —Pathway to Gifts
From the Heart with Grace / Du cœur avec grâce in SalmonPoetry40
My Mother Ceridwen in The Guild of Mythographers
In Search of Benevolent Immortality in The Creative Process
Locked in Plasma in Colorado Review
A House Like a Ship in Pratik and Verse Daily
Galactic Architect, Peripatetic Gremlin, A House Like a Ship & more in Punch Magazine
Low Altitude in The London Magazine
Time Remembered in The Washington Independent Review of Books
Shaman in Residence in Dublin Review of Books
Quiescent Infinite in The Lascaux Review
Between Klimt and Giacometti in As It Ought to Be
Unveiling Jean Cocteau in As It Ought to Be
Other Worlds in Live Encounters
Life in Suspension in The BeZine, Hope: Great Expectations and Quiet Desires
Ouranoupolis Pantoum in The BeZine, Hope: Great Expectations and Quiet Desires
To Kitty, Who Loved the Sea and Somerset Maugham in The BeZine
How God Thinks Is Surprising, Meteor, Musica Eterna, in Connotation Press, A Poetry Congeries
Peregrine Pantoum in Poetry Rules
Un trabajo de orfebre in EMMA GUNST
Dreamer in Mediterranean Poetry
Supernova, Binding the Rain, in Mad Hatters’ Review
My Mother Ceridwen in The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology
Notes From Last Night, Cornucopia, The Sexiest Flower in Recours au Poème
I hear my mother’s voice echo
you’re all the sunlight
that’s ever been in my life.
—C’est Comme Ça
I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.
—A Mind Like Lightning
look at the other side of the world
as if a deck of cards spread out to peek under and flip over for a glimpse at the hidden side.
—Dreaming My Animal Selves
The spokes of the wheel loosen
amidst thoughts like windstorms
containing all of humanity
—Winter Horse
I map the mathematical universe, forge
equations into stellar winds…
—Embers
Spellbound in From the Fishouse
C’est Comme Ça in Poetic Diversity
Galactic Architect, Twisting the Moon, in Asian Signature
From the Heart with Grace in The Toronto Quarterly
Between Klimt and Giacometti in The Warwick Review
Heliotropic, Illumination, Let the Rain Go Through in Levure Littéraire
In the Nothingness in Asian Signature
All the Sweetness in the World in Exquisite Duets
Inquisitive Life in Pirene’s Fountain
A Mind Like the Sky, Night Messenger, Dreams Like Water in Thrush Poetry Journal
Three poems in Poetry Salzburg Review
Two poems in The Más Tequila Review
Ex Tempore in California Quarterly
DoveTales, An International Journal of the Arts “Nature”
I pursue elusive sleep
for a place to heal mishaps
the last place to anchor my boat.
—Dreams Like Water
You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.
—Low Altitude
Circe, you recognize, you decipher
Enigmas and the color of the omen.
I always await the revelation.
I am among those who believe in magic.
—José Manuel Cardona
Much gratitude to the following journals for publishing Hélène’s work:
Agenda Poetry; AGNI; Anastamos; Anomaly; Asian Signature; Askew Poetry; Asymptote Journal; Backstory Journal; Barnwood International Poetry Magazine; Blue Fifth Review; California State Poetry Quarterly; Cha: An Asian Literary Journal; Colorado Review; Connotation Press: An Online Artifact; DoveTales Literary Journal; Drunken Boat; Dublin Poetry Review; Dublin Review of Books; East West: A Poetry Annual; Edgar Allan Poet; Exchanges Literary Journal; Fjords Review; Francopolis; From the Fishouse; Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics; Hayden’s Ferry Review; jmww; InTranslation; Knot Magazine; Levure Litteraire; Mad Hatters’ Review; Maintenant; MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing; Mediterranean Poetry; Mom Egg Review; Mythic Passages; National Translation Month; One; On the Seawall: Other Terrain Journal; Periódico de Poesía; Pirene’s Fountain; Plume Poetry; Poetic Diversity; Poetry East-West; Poetry International; Pratik A Magazine of Contemporary Writing; qarrtsiluni; Recours au Poème; Saint Julian Press; Salzburg Poetry Review; Speechless the Magazine; Spillway; TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics; Taos Journal of Poetry & Art; Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments; The BeZine; The American Journal of Poetry; The Blue Max Review; The Brooklyn Rail; The Creative Process, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review; The High Window; The Irish Literary Times; The Lascaux Review; The London Magazine; The Los Angeles Review; The Más Tequila Review; The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology; The Passionate Transitory; The Poet by Day; The Poetry Bus; The Toronto Quarterly; The Warwick Review; THRUSH Poetry Journal; Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature; Truck; Verse Daily; Washington Square Review; Waxwing Literary Journal; World Literature Today; Writer’s Digest.
Poetry is language for the ineffable. Mysticism constitutes the experience of what transcends us while inhabiting us. Poetry, as creation, borders on it. It is metaphysical. It offers a new vision of the universe, reveals the soul’s secrets and mysteries.
It’s simply my way of being alone.