by Memoona Zahid | Apr 27, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
What is there to say About petals? They precede seeds, And return every year: each happening Contains its own undoing, brings The next one in its wake. The world in a perpetual State of adolescence, everything Not quite this anymore, but not that yet. A...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Hi, you. Mouth slightly open to the sight of dandelion: why’d you shove it in? Bitter lion teeth, breathtakingly ticklish, seed in a wrong bed. Cheng Tim Tim is a teacher and a poet born in Hong Kong to a Hokkien family. Her poems have been...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Froglet Bisexual began in the tiny black pupil of a frogspawn pearl. It grew inside a jellied eye, shuddering out a tail, feathered gills. Dilating as it observed a dim world, sucking in light like a vacuum. Collapsing in on itself, reforming, nudging...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 24, 2021 | Featured, Prose
Happiness is Free Wifi – After the billboard in Ealing Broadway shopping centre. Contentment walks into a coffee shop, is offered super-speed free Happiness with her blueberry muffin, under 100 calories. ‘FUCK ME’, Contentment gleams. The...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The depressed girl makes a smoothie Strawberries. Cut them up into pebble-sized pieces. They’re supposed to go out of date in three days but one of them already has mould growing on it. It reminds me of the sky I see through my bedroom window on a mostly...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Cost of Living after Deborah Levy His hair was not silver and not pinned into a bun. I’ve been reading it over and over. Obsession over something harmless must be a good thing. It’s a book, safe, I’ve been told. A woman saying things I like to hear,...
