by Kate Birch | Feb 1, 2023 | News
I REWIND THE SECOND MY MOTHER’S GIRLHOOD BREAKS I am below her when it happens: She let’s go of the banyan’s hanging roots, her body launched into bulbul’s arc on the upswing, so many ixora blooms clouding through her cheeks My mouth wants itself a perpetual hole for...
by Kate Birch | Jan 13, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
excruciatingly beautiful Two words that capture voters’ response to Zoe Piponides’ ‘This Oh So Bearable Lightness’ and illustrate why it is the Pick of the Month for December 2022. Voters found the poem thought-provoking, original and gripping. They...
by Kate Birch | Dec 31, 2022 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a new year how long before I stop missing you Haiku originally published in #FemkuMag 9, 2019. Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka...
by Kate Birch | Dec 28, 2022 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
love symbols spoken in a chinese winter I am grown tall in the telling of the yellow that the dance leaves a signal for, finishing the ridge in a luminous squall, wanting your white elk-breath and the hoof-pound at my door. I am the first blade turned black in winter...
by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | News
