by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 23, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Upminster Train We met on the District Line from Wimbledon to Upminster. Chatted all through Southfields. Hands held by Putney Bridge. Our first kiss at a sudden lurch near Parson’s Green. In love as we pulled in at Fulham Broadway. It was all...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 22, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Lea at Hertford Around me everything is peaceful. The river flows, willows trail in it and children walk by. Nothing of her suicide abides. Dennis Tomlinson lives in London. His poems have been published recently in Shot...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured, Prose
Zina I remember your laugh, a cackle, irrepressible and sometimes never ending, echoing down the stairs. Wooden stairs, or were they covered in lino, scuffed by hundreds of feet up and down in that damaged old house. There were eight of us living...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Because you’ve never seen one, you ask me about stag beetles What can I tell you now that they’re so rare? Every childhood May or June they came at dawn and dusk, mostly in ones and twos, sometimes formation clouds buzzing, black belly-drop, fuzzy...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
ALMANACS 21. Your optics’ fuzz is merciful. Value speckles on mirrors. Above par days have routed. Profess want of upset – Grizzled hairs invade, marauding. 24. Festoon pine ’til glitzy. Shroud bounty in vivid overlays. Letterbox cards...
