by Elontra Hall | Nov 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill poet and artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world. Her book, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024), received 3rd Place in the 2025 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards.
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...
