by Elontra Hall | Aug 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Does anybody want any money? I’ve got all this money lying around. Have you got anything you can do with it? I asked Josie but she doesn’t want it. Klio says the extension is already paid for. Geoff has a job and wants to pay his way....
by Elontra Hall | Aug 26, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Love What fell between an abrupt shower and a sky’s attitude was your memory. In the small presence of wind under a tree, I stopped renovating your image, after the silence ploughed over, the days we spent in front of each other, agreeing that the...
by Elontra Hall | Aug 25, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Ramadan Colleagues munching bap and burger thought Ramadan was that juicy winger, his scorching pace soon snaffled up by City. Giving stuff up, they say, is murder – and two weeks into Lent they bring a secret snack to work through sheer...
by Elontra Hall | Aug 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
BLACKBIRD IN THE EARLY MORNING Sings at the top of the bare-branched tree an aubade to morning welcomes the light, early spring, season of nest-making. This melody is not for me but to attract a mate. I walk the dog under the dulcet notes and...
by Elontra Hall | Aug 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Poseidon at the Spill as the tanker tore its throat against the shallow spine, as the village unravelled when the sea took fire; in a hi-vis flower of diesel light, he rose. finding his tongue tang-stained with oil he yanked his ankle-chain to its...
by Elontra Hall | Aug 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Wood Anemone Between the trees dust shifts, light fractures like a prism. A cathedral silence greens the air. The soil smells of damp books. I see them — paper-thin, spreading on the dark floor of the wood. Still as a shut door. Nothing...
