by Sofía Masondo | Sep 27, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
AFTER YOU HAVE GONE Morning moves with tempered sound. A heel turns by the green gate. The alley setts rest in purple curves. Some night seems to have been left here. Pots of sweet herbs are placed to fill the yard with subtle scent. Somewhere a...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured, Prose
Eye Candy Lloyd is dressed like a candy bar in an all-too-bright gas station. Gleaming red tracksuit, brand name under the sternum like a label. Nike – Organic, Nutty, Satisfying. Clothes like buzzwords. Sunglasses like the metal sheen to the wrapper, my...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Black Pool 14,000 BC Midsummer’s Day On flat plains of low juniper scrub monolithic, massive remnants of ice dwarf the land, draws the herds: mammoth, deer, horse watch calves, fauns, foals while people, wolf, lynx, bear wait in the shade. The ice fails, cracking,...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Flat Holm Not the boring twin. Not even benign. This is a proper island: rocks, foghorn, lighthouse. Chinkle of footsteps on slate roof fragments – the detritus of war and peacetime paranoia. A glut of leadberries at the defensive ditch: juicy,...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 23, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Jacob Burgess Rollo is a poet and prose writer based in Dorset, his work is featured in From the Lighthouse and Avant Cardigan, a zine he founded with friends. He has an English Literature BA from Durham and is going on to study for a...
by Sofía Masondo | Sep 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
a ghazal for Doggerland —after Doggerland: Lost World in the North Sea, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (2021) we walk through the exhibition hall lost amongst water-logged bones, a sunk haul lost grave-deep underwater, newly unearthed as North-Sea...
