by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
ELECTED For safe keeping they split the truth into manageable pieces. They hid some between silence and promise, let it grow to myth. Hid some between action and contrived headline changing its shape. Hid some between hearing and interpretation,...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Blue Whale (Natural History Museum, London) The mandibles look like the tusks of some gigantic bull elephant bagged by hunters posing for a photograph in pith helmets next to a tent and a wind up phonograph. I reckon the Titanic’s...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Keep Going Aldgate had its usual smell of dirty metal and coffee. I jumped from platform to carriage. I squeezed beside a Tate Britain poster, clutched the grab-handle. When I chanced a glance, I saw I was the only one standing. Everyone else was...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
mercury rising we groan as the mercury hikes climbing with the ball of fire the Hot Weather Warning surrenders its flag feels like 40 and it’s only May Day we survive in gasps between air-conditioned bubbles like goldfish the elderly populate...
by Kate Birch | Apr 22, 2024 | More Word & Image
My head is the earth My head is the earth, my skin the air dusk is my hair. I am the earth – I open myself and make love with the sky. On my horizon we touch and eternity cascades on me with the night/light. Axis Mundi is based on Csilla...
