by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
A Space of Her Own A thirty-year-old woman walks into the wee sma’ hours of a December night. Snow is light on her hair and the back garden shrubs. It thickens. The sky turns white. She stands still. Her boots are coated, and the heels disappear....
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Heat Wave Reculver, August 2022 Whipped by flowers, the cliff begins to crack. Gulls blunder. The sea is skinned along sand blades. Towers of the imagined dead slide downwards in a grip that is harder than ice. Carolyn Oulton’s...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Cremation morning after your cremation I wake no calls to make to stethoscopes or wreathes your bones no longer at any postcode watch black smoke clouds from neighbours’ chimneys ghosts how can your blood now be this urn of ash to lick my...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Making Pierogi for My Mother A parcel of time the dough thinning to not quite conceal what it contains. Onions and potatoes root my floured fingers to the earth. We consume the ground we stand on. Sylvie Jane Lewis writes fiction and...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Siberian Larkspur Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Quiet Joy Stay silent under eyes of stars quietly watching, the cat slinks by my house, pads slow, wary, a mouse like a dreamer’s sleep in her mouth. Single light from a top window opens its shadows. She leaps with...
