by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dingo in a World Heritage Site I won’t forget her on the beach – fur the colours of sand. We wouldn’t have spotted her were it not for the jiggle of her gait, the turn of her head with ears pricked, the spine’s taut bow and torque of her...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
ecotone you stoop & shell your self touch in gustgasp gentle now hailsharp you brave me ...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Answering my father You stopped the car in the lane just before our driveway. I didn’t ask why. Chestnut trees leaned in on either side, the damp air breathed. You sat there, looking straight ahead and said there’s nothing worse than being...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Gay Chicken This is how it starts. Champion of every round, player, Don’t care to cleanse yourself from the corridor rumours. ...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 21, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Virginities one for hurting / for loveless / for rinsing yourself off afterwards and meeting your eye in the bathroom mirror and saying firmly you have not made a mistake / for a mistake for knowing who you are / for confirmation for otra...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 20, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Shabby chic my body is a shipwreck blooming with coral I open my legs and out pour gold doubloons it is impossible to slam a door underwater there is an opening here fathoms deep I have made a mast of myself washed up on a beach somewhere once a...
