by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 2, 2026 | Featured, Filmpoems
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change 1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die. 2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat. 3. Lytton broke...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Letter to L You’re a character, a Roman numeral, an internet meme. Descendant from a peasant’s crook or cattle prod, you’re the twelfth letter of the alphabet, but missing from a baker’s dozen. You’re in every email I ever wrote, appearing in...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Comfort Queens “As usual, we are joined today by about nine or ten gay men who follow me, and a legion of young queer women with anxiety who find me comforting.” Trixie Mattel, via a Livestream Being quiet and easily tired by being...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A Prayer for Rima With echoes of the Arabic lullaby ‘yalla tnam’ Maybe after your bath— you will sit for a moment, the towel will hold you close like a quiet prayer— يا رب، نامت الطفلة، يا رب خلّيها تنام Ya Rab, the child sleeps, oh Lord, help her...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 28, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
TThe mirror in your apartment where I saw you praying through the angle of the door Now hangs only in my mind I breathe on its glass wipe away fly specks Tsyotsya but there is only the empty kitchen in the tower block in Volodymyr The rhomboids of...
