by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured, Flash Fiction, Prose
Surviving Six Shooter I was sent from the Glendale jail down to the L.A. Twin Towers, the Los Angeles County Jail for those with medicinal needs. I was Bipolar and on 14 prescription meds including two strong anti-psychotics. LAC was the only...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Agnosthesia for MH She gives me a word to look up in a dictionary of obscure sorrows. I, who try to decipher echoes from other people’s reaction to my words throw down a bucket into the well recognise water when people tell me how sad––how...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 23, 2024 | Featured, Prose
Liana 1) Liana vines are rooted in the earth and use trees to climb towards the canopy. Mum sews in her armchair, the embroidery hoop in one hand like a tambourine as she plays it with cotton, the needle’s tempo remaining steady when Dad gets...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Longing After Hafiz Longing curls its legs up on the sofa in our house. There’s a dip there now. How I long to turn us into a day trip. You belong in that chair over there asking what happened with that text and where I bought this jumper, whether...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Jun 21, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Mercurial Mornings See the local estate agent crooks Ten a penny Smoking their rollies, washed down with protein Pigeons with emerald necks Mealworm toes Clucking ‘round bins Unfazed by the likes of you Or me Taxi drivers Caffeinated Menagerie of...
