by Elontra Hall | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The night before their wedding, Dad tells Mum two things I. He’s ten years older than he’d said, which makes him twenty-eight years older, not eighteen. It’s a bad blow. What’s done can’t be undone. Mum’s only choice is a hostel for unmarried mothers. She puts on...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Child’s Innocence in Gaza We are the ones who see big crackers burst every day— still wondering why the adults hate crackers. While everyone loves simulation games, we live inside them— the most real simulation is the war around us. There...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Tinkerbell on Queensway She barely glances at you when you chink your spare coins in her upturned cap, but still spreads a spell among the pavement footfalls, making her patch by the station a land you try not to invade. Not that you never see men...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Shedding Annamakerrig It begins high up the chestnut tree with leaves on the twigs on the tips of branches where sap has slowed. Turning amber carried by the breeze they touch the earth, rest on the grass where autumn begins Tim...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Triplet 1. From this far-side apartment you watch jarul leaves darkening with the seasons, progenies from the shoots’ threads. Footprints of your ancestors beckon to you, the assemblies of daisies are blooming on the balcony. Sunlight drizzles in...
