by Elontra Hall | Oct 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Remedial ‘Intended for school students who have not achieved the level of necessary attainment’ He couldn’t play rugby – the oval slithered away whenever he touched it and he fell in the mud or more often was pushed with some viciousness....
by Elontra Hall | Oct 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
You used to be shorter When we first came here two seasons ago You were barely as high as my hip Now you can look me right in the eye It’s almost impossible to believe You’re not quite as tall as Giannis But you hope that one day you can Jump like...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Pivotal When our plaything ricochets falling who knows where everything hinging on the line there is a precise moment when nothing is certain a glorious terrifying uncontrollable wait the receptacle of our hopes poised mid- air with infinite trajectories...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Art Exhibit I hear the roar of the ocean. I hear a series of shrieks and long screams. An eventual lull comes. My ears are an abstraction. I don’t know what to tell you. Last night a spider made its way inside my ear. It crawled out with fragments...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Roman curses Nobody knows what Cicero’s gardener whistled to his figs and olives, what the consul’s young wife hummed to herself while slaves combed beeswax and perfumed oils from Carthage into her hair. Did bawdy odes to Octavia’s backside (Ah,...
