by Prerana Kumar | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
SELECT BODIES We didn’t say it coming. Preoccupied By interchangeable analogies (the jasmine Blossom burdening the Avenues, plus several other factors) We walked to the library, anxiously Equipped. The afternoon Swung on its tender,...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Time to Go 5.03AM: Our Health starts to go at late middle age. Doctors hazard a guess at what’s wrong in the grey haze under the skin, but at some point they stop bothering. Whatever is slowing us down is left alone; the broken cogs don’t need...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Daffodils Smarmy cunts. Hiding from me, in chattering spheres, year-round spectres of a season delayed. Budding in a darkness unknown – I will remember numbness. A yellow that melts, butter upon frost, their smooth openings jar in the...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Snowdrops I remember you from my crayon days. Clung about the tree like children to a maypole, you held green secrets close, the magic of the changing seasons folded in your petals. In the months before my mother died I anticipated you with...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Death’s Head Moth The effect is to produce the most superstitious feelings among the uneducated, by whom it is always regarded with feelings of awe and terror. ‘The Death’s-Head Hawk-Moth’, in Edward Newman’s An Illustrated Natural History of...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Wulf and Eadwacer’s Daughter Make Meatballs after the Old English poem Jessa Brown, a UEA creative writing MA student, has been an Acumen Young Poet. Her work has been published in the Brixton Review of Books, The Mays, and Young Writers,...
