by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 21, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Frenemy Ever noticed how your legs stop moving when you fly? As a crow makes a sudden dive up through the mirror. I too have mapped my body against clouds of glass, masked like a surgeon on the Canterbury 17. On arrival she says she’ll cut my...
by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Sonic Boom It knocked you for seven in the frozen aisle. It wasn’t sound. It was faster than that. You’re going through the ice box, rooting for peas when, with a BOOM, you have your life play the drums in your ears. You hear the past crackle...
by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Luciferins Yeah: all the colours crowding the daylight claiming their own place in the sun and then there’s us reacting with oxygen to make our own position clear, our own availability gorgeous. Pride? Yeah: why not, we say as we spark the...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
How, tonight, a Detective Sergeant’s Wife will have her sadness taken from her Leaning back, sipping coffee to keep awake, he’s evaluating witness statements, incident reports of suspected criminal activity, photos of indistinct footprints, and knows...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Birdman at Manchester Airport Makes His Confession 1962, Elisabeth Frink, Manchester Arrivals Hall We are envious, full of longing, incapable of looking at the setting of a raspberry-peach sun without desire. We want to hurl ourselves into...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Park At night in the dreary park empty swings the roundabout on well- greased gimbal manages to budge a little I tread the slight bounce of reconstituted tyre at the slide’s base rakish boys and girls sip from a single bottle spark up a...
