by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Waiting Room, Ward 5b Half five. The sky thickens to darkness through the grime on the tall windows, the claw marks of rain. Someone whistles in the corridor. The drinks machine hums ceaselessly. The TV bracket is an empty gibbet, a bookcase has only a...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Cell Division Something is pulling at my T-shirt. Something is holding my hand. I can feel it walking beside me. It almost trips me up as its steps cross over with mine. Parked cars squeeze us against the hedge. I have to tread carefully holding my bag out at...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 28, 2024 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
table for one barely above a whisper … year-end dinner snow crystals on my neighbor’s windows … Foreclosure askew first job interview my shadow on the sunlit snow strawberry stains on the corners of my son’s mouth … his laugh in my...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Club Hydra Vasiliki Albedo’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, Magma, The Rialto, and elsewhere. She won the 2023 Hammond House International Literary Prize and the Poetry...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Sue Burge’s two poetry collections are: In the Kingdom of Shadows and Confetti Dancers (Live Canon). Lumière and The Saltwater Diaries, both pamphlets, are published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. Her third collection, The Artificial Parisienne, is...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Daphne (It is predicted that by 2050 there will be at least one green autotropic person on Earth) She came with a label tied to her toe: “Daphne”. An ordinary cadaver, but young, too young for an early death – her beauty subdued – yet it made us gasp, her flared hips,...
