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...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Wight Sirens Sing silver times, shimmering columns of light on the wine-dark, temple to moon-eyed Hecate, the insatiable. Sing treachery, dizzy with stars, sudden squalls, sting of our stink, pianissimo of sighing, undying, true-to-only-you-oo...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 25, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Seven Sisters Road We rolled out on Seven Sisters Road, two crates of Tyskie empty in my stairwell. We were talking from the chest, walking backwards crackling air above our heads like streetlights beatboxing, spitting Maccies adverts at us sounds...
