by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 20, 2026 | Featured, Word & Image
tangential light clear skies nightfall, constellations, spool. a regular pattern. metrical rhythm not simply read but sung. Emily Coles is a visual artist whose practice is focused on artist’s books. Her work often explores text and pattern. She...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Cartographer He does not shout. He charts. Where treaty lines once hung like old nets, he inks the deep, the dark, the yet-unmade. The map bleeds where his stylus rests. Tested: the pipeline’s buried nerve, the cable’s woven thought, the...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 19, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
03:41 Downstairs a poem for insomniacs Huddled on the cat’s blanket, hyenas crying through the night. Scribbled notes regretting tea, the need for light. Time passes, shoulders settle the hyenas to a quiet shout. Everything goes cold as energy,...
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...