by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Flock In the charity shop I try on a coat flocked with fake shearling, shaved-soft almost: fibres fired onto plastic to fool the wrist. At home I snap it. A dust of fur lifts, hangs, then drifts onto the draining board, the bulb, the bruised...
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...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 27, 2026 | Featured
Extracted Poems “never again” bloodshed will teach a lesson nobody will learn * the protocol little need be said about the mourning the keening of mothers the grief of fathers the silence of children their names will wrap the branches...
