by Memoona Zahid | Feb 12, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Glacier I overspill the high corries where the snow accumulates, breaks down, suffers ablation. Over the decades, the millennia, ice slows and fankles due to my weight. My skin extrudes nunataks, shears away to crevasses; I extend glassy gantries over...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 11, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
TAMAGOTCHI the tamagotchi was a key chain sized egg shaped computer with screen three buttons the tamagotchis were small aliens like me who had put down an egg on Earth to see what life was like the player had to raise the...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
In Memory of Bhau I have just woken up on a stern mattress in the living room again. I sit up, my hands pressing the night out of my body. There is that devoted din of a ceiling fan, blowing clumps of dust between the sofas. And spread across the walls,...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
From under the wardrobe the naked bulb on the ceiling is an oddly lit glass balloon, bobbing riskily upside down in the winter sky. There’s an unfriendly quality in my shoulder; I’m packed like a fugitive’s suitcase, roughly. Buried under hanged clothes...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 8, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Looking Upwards These stones overhead, comets juggling omens… What’s the distance between nothing and no other thing? We eye the sky thinking of a science to replace it with. Has anybody flown to holiness from a language? To bliss from...
