by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Heat Wave Reculver, August 2022 Whipped by flowers, the cliff begins to crack. Gulls blunder. The sea is skinned along sand blades. Towers of the imagined dead slide downwards in a grip that is harder than ice. Carolyn Oulton’s...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Cremation morning after your cremation I wake no calls to make to stethoscopes or wreathes your bones no longer at any postcode watch black smoke clouds from neighbours’ chimneys ghosts how can your blood now be this urn of ash to lick my...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Making Pierogi for My Mother A parcel of time the dough thinning to not quite conceal what it contains. Onions and potatoes root my floured fingers to the earth. We consume the ground we stand on. Sylvie Jane Lewis writes fiction and...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 27, 2023 | Word & Image
At the Ballet: I all things beautiful begin to pall if fixed for ever in the dumb enormity of performance Julia Biggs is a poet, writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Bough...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Siberian Larkspur Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways...