by Elontra Hall | Oct 28, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
CONFIRMATION Aircon crickets through the night outside my parents’ bedroom since brother and I are not allowed AC given the dangers of cold air to children. I can’t sleep under my polyester blanket; wet back stuck to cotton sheets fused to a mattress...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Inheritance of Smoke We did not inherit land, only remnants of fields they burned— black fields scorched before we understood what it meant to sow. Fathers left us silence: not of cruelty, but some shattering fear. Growing up, we learned to decipher...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 26, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
I Don’t Remember Breakfast With You Maybe I remember getting brunch; or the time the dog ate my croissant; or when you fed me strawberries ironically in bed and we giggled with sugar on our lips. These breakfasts bubbled like new rivers. Now,...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Remedial ‘Intended for school students who have not achieved the level of necessary attainment’ He couldn’t play rugby – the oval slithered away whenever he touched it and he fell in the mud or more often was pushed with some viciousness....
by Elontra Hall | Oct 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
You used to be shorter When we first came here two seasons ago You were barely as high as my hip Now you can look me right in the eye It’s almost impossible to believe You’re not quite as tall as Giannis But you hope that one day you can Jump like...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Pivotal When our plaything ricochets falling who knows where everything hinging on the line there is a precise moment when nothing is certain a glorious terrifying uncontrollable wait the receptacle of our hopes poised mid- air with infinite trajectories...
