by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 15, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Napsack A blustery day – the wind too strong for kites or for lifts to the sky. “To a thoughtful spot,” it cites and pins me to the earth. A dragonfly perches atop a little asphalt hill but zips off when the hill twitches and sniffs the air....
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 14, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
I Cast Out Everything except this burnt red vase. Hand shaped in the muffled roar, devouring flame in the furnace’s mouth. Sand becomes skin of light. Its glass body trembles like a sea animal remembering its salt. I hold the lagoon’s sigh,...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 13, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Under The Plum Tree Look, Drew, the plums are in pieces beneath us. I dreamt: you let the sweet ones rot at the bottom of your pocket, sagging like the canopy. Hannah is thirty feet long in a field of dandelions, waving...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 5, 2025 | Filmpoems
ONE DAY One day, one day We will sit on that bench under the lights Overlooking the river which you sweetly think is the sea One day, one day You will drown I will drown One day, one day I will drown you You will drown me In happiness In smiling nuts In...
by Sairah Ahsan | Nov 30, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Midnight Swingball Sleep. Elusive as lucid dreams. Closed eyes teem wotsit-orange, spiderweb scarlet & thatch-brown body jerks like a swingball. Conscience and subconscious flailing paddles back forward|forward back...
