by Elontra Hall | Oct 31, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
quiet slid in bass-drop dams up pierced ears, furred with youth, his vest drinks sweat, high-tops, Moog-loop domed cap punctured with embroidery, brailled ethnographic record, reverb haze of brisk lavender, wire mesh trash of the park, sun-burnt song,...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 30, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
safety in numbers lunchtime, in the maths department arranging pencils by colour two friends, carefully sorting into clear plastic tubs a temporary stand against the inevitable entropy of fourteen-year-olds this, and each september brightened by a new...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 29, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Autumn Fires Unexpected as burned stone, what am I supposed to do with this memory? The sudden shuffle of ash, flames clicking like needles, grey-cold flags. You there just now – I can’t be sure – perhaps about to be? 5 a.m., still curved like wax...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 28, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
CONFIRMATION Aircon crickets through the night outside my parents’ bedroom since brother and I are not allowed AC given the dangers of cold air to children. I can’t sleep under my polyester blanket; wet back stuck to cotton sheets fused to a mattress...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Inheritance of Smoke We did not inherit land, only remnants of fields they burned— black fields scorched before we understood what it meant to sow. Fathers left us silence: not of cruelty, but some shattering fear. Growing up, we learned to decipher...
