by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Answering my father You stopped the car in the lane just before our driveway. I didn’t ask why. Chestnut trees leaned in on either side, the damp air breathed. You sat there, looking straight ahead and said there’s nothing worse than being...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Gay Chicken This is how it starts. Champion of every round, player, Don’t care to cleanse yourself from the corridor rumours. ...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 21, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Virginities one for hurting / for loveless / for rinsing yourself off afterwards and meeting your eye in the bathroom mirror and saying firmly you have not made a mistake / for a mistake for knowing who you are / for confirmation for otra...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 20, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Shabby chic my body is a shipwreck blooming with coral I open my legs and out pour gold doubloons it is impossible to slam a door underwater there is an opening here fathoms deep I have made a mast of myself washed up on a beach somewhere once a...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 19, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Marianne North transports the tropics to Kew She packs the globe in a wooden box, ships it to London, shrinking each place she visits to the space between her hands then draws them apart like a conjuror nectaring sunbirds out of sable hair, butterfly...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Willow Woman After ‘The Huntress of Skipton Castle Woods’ by Anna & the Willow Pliant yet unyielding—there’s steel at my core— I’m fixed in the flex of blown breeze, leaf ripple. Hems besom discarded leaves, gathering them in as kin, and I’m...
