by Sairah Ahsan | Nov 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Examining clots It wobbles slightly, red wine jelly. I peer at it, nose close enough to smell the iron, the scent of coagulant, inhaling through slightly parted lips I imagine I can taste it, how everything tasted metallic, like monkey bar poles...
by Sairah Ahsan | Nov 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Kamila Seen as she’d hung her cranial lantern from the roof of her step-father’s garden shed, the parabolic formula was skipped; like two calves, we followed the fence to the end of the foot-ball pitch. Beneath their sprinklers, we kissed on our...
by Sairah Ahsan | Nov 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Common Ground Behind the block, the night tears in scrub-calls. Fox kill scores the morning, ripped by prints in muck. There’s a form for this, a number to call, an action plan, a statement on how the city manages its wild, what to do when...
by Sairah Ahsan | Nov 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Manchester Piccadilly ➡ Wolverhampton Stepping into the opposing seat I smile, and the look I receive Makes me feel the antisocial one. With oh so many missed connections It seems that somewhere, somewhen, somehow Something has gone horribly...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2025 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s 2025...
