by Memoona Zahid | Feb 15, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Matinal Fears I’m going to mess your life up— taping my thumb to my finger. I’m a big foot kind of bitch god, my father is scared to ask me the truth. I cannot wake from meat dreams, orange pulp fighting my maternal instinct. Let’s calm ourselves, wash...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Haberdasher After Pascale Petit I found out where my heart is that he’s cut out with his tiny scissors. He stitched it to a t-shirt with her name on. Back in New York they spend the weekend together, wandering down avenues that all look the same. She...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 13, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Migraine day Two charged wires, that shouldn’t meet, are touching and – deeply – a tenderness of bright red ulcer pulses. The sky is the colour of unrequited fights and love bites. The magpies are nervy. The weather – saw-toothed and pissed – is...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 12, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Glacier I overspill the high corries where the snow accumulates, breaks down, suffers ablation. Over the decades, the millennia, ice slows and fankles due to my weight. My skin extrudes nunataks, shears away to crevasses; I extend glassy gantries over...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 11, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
TAMAGOTCHI the tamagotchi was a key chain sized egg shaped computer with screen three buttons the tamagotchis were small aliens like me who had put down an egg on Earth to see what life was like the player had to raise the...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
In Memory of Bhau I have just woken up on a stern mattress in the living room again. I sit up, my hands pressing the night out of my body. There is that devoted din of a ceiling fan, blowing clumps of dust between the sofas. And spread across the walls,...
