by Helen Ivory | Feb 5, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The House Keeps Score The house keeps score in places no one checks any longer. A hairline crack behind the fridge. The soft dip in the hallway floor where grief learned how to pace. We didn’t mark the days after you left. We measured time by...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Windless Day Night’s white noise is over. Day arises to stillness. Light crouches behind windows, presses through chinks. Dawn’s chorus conceals a speck of silence that casts a shadow stretching vast across the floor. Double-checking in the cereal...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Flock In the charity shop I try on a coat flocked with fake shearling, shaved-soft almost: fibres fired onto plastic to fool the wrist. At home I snap it. A dust of fur lifts, hangs, then drifts onto the draining board, the bulb, the bruised...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Letter to L You’re a character, a Roman numeral, an internet meme. Descendant from a peasant’s crook or cattle prod, you’re the twelfth letter of the alphabet, but missing from a baker’s dozen. You’re in every email I ever wrote, appearing in...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Comfort Queens “As usual, we are joined today by about nine or ten gay men who follow me, and a legion of young queer women with anxiety who find me comforting.” Trixie Mattel, via a Livestream Being quiet and easily tired by being...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A Prayer for Rima With echoes of the Arabic lullaby ‘yalla tnam’ Maybe after your bath— you will sit for a moment, the towel will hold you close like a quiet prayer— يا رب، نامت الطفلة، يا رب خلّيها تنام Ya Rab, the child sleeps, oh Lord, help her...
