by Fathima Zahra | Dec 21, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
Lacrimosa, 2004 //There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly. //The last time I stood by the sea, the waves snaked in and swept my shoes away in one quick lick of tide. I walked home barefoot...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 20, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Holly Queen She curled emerald tights about the core of an oak slumbering with thick bare limbs. He had lost his hair she noticed a vast shock of lemon green let fall to a muddy mulch below. Ivy’s agile twitches hugged tight twisting,...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
On Stage in a home-made model theatre, c.1967 Glued to your block, in paint and ink you wait for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to stop. Smell of hardboard and hot bakelite. The lino curtain’s ready to go up. At which, the straightened coat hanger is shoved and on you...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Airplane Mode Nothing bad can happen on a plane. Engine fires, earache, hijackers; but no new grief. The heart is contained. Cupped in the silence, sorrow makes truce with the green lands below. In the regulate hum of the aircon, the news...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 17, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Winged Kirsty Fox is a writer and artist specialising in ecopoetics. She writes lyric essays and poetry, and has had work published by Apricot Press, Arachne Press, and Streetcake Magazine. She has a Masters in Creative Writing and is currently studying...
