by Memoona Zahid | Mar 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
A NOTE ON PINK These things are pink: tongue; blush; intestine. Candyfloss. Ham. Flamingo. This much we know. The lotus flower is an excellent example of pink. The pink grapefruit is internally pink, but externally a warm peach. A sunrise is sometimes...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
winter monsoon, Bangkok, 2020 in Bangkok students amass asking after the disappeared in the shade of a banyan tree cut in half, in a diary twisting sugar with ink a seer wonders how to speak of what she has embroidered of a night world of frangipani...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Beachcombing at Night I find a broken compass behind his right ear, two Euros behind his left, bent spoons in each armpit, AA batteries behind both of his knees. He hands me a torch, nothing happens when I flick the switch. ‘Ah!’ I swap the...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 20, 2021 | More Word & Image
I dream of the sea by Josephine Corcoran Spring has come Wild fireworks of garlic Abundant as uncut grass Wildflowers enormous Inside In my small life I listen to rain Dream Of the sea Original haiku by Yosa Buson: harusame ya koiso no kogai nururu hodo...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 20, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Sunday Mornings You place the pieces on the table pendulum rocker-arm weights escape wheel use a toothbrush frisk the cogs There is a limit to tightening the time a risk of breaking The grandfather should not be tilted sideways backwards ...
