by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Quiet Joy Stay silent under eyes of stars quietly watching, the cat slinks by my house, pads slow, wary, a mouse like a dreamer’s sleep in her mouth. Single light from a top window opens its shadows. She leaps with...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dingo in a World Heritage Site I won’t forget her on the beach – fur the colours of sand. We wouldn’t have spotted her were it not for the jiggle of her gait, the turn of her head with ears pricked, the spine’s taut bow and torque of her...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
ecotone you stoop & shell your self touch in gustgasp gentle now hailsharp you brave me ...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Answering my father You stopped the car in the lane just before our driveway. I didn’t ask why. Chestnut trees leaned in on either side, the damp air breathed. You sat there, looking straight ahead and said there’s nothing worse than being...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Gay Chicken This is how it starts. Champion of every round, player, Don’t care to cleanse yourself from the corridor rumours. ...
