by Helen Ivory | Mar 1, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
To a Good Night’s Sleep You know how it goes but never why or when – perhaps it’s all that cheese and caffeine or a black cat crossing but sure as broken eggs make omelettes you can bet your life that one night all your hidden quirks and...
by Prerana Kumar | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Little Monuments my brain is no longer full of pound coins paperbacks with my name on rainbow flags tax bills Instagram followers my brain is now Dad’s pierced left ear lobe that I touched for first and last time in chapel of rest to see...
by Prerana Kumar | Feb 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Long Haul In Buenos Aires, the high-rises are built with stacks of premium steak, while in Patagonia, the killer whales like to beach themselves, Tuesdays at half-past four in the afternoon to play a game of pat-a-cake. Bake me a cake, as slow as...
by Prerana Kumar | Feb 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Major Arcana No. XXI: The World You could believe the all is dancing somewhere where the body is not bruised, where hearts are glowing like an earthrise, where all time and time’s losses, all wrongs are resolved in the golden snake that winds...
by Prerana Kumar | Feb 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
From The Last Divided Capital In The World Childhood memories of sandbags, and barrels against barbed wired brick walls barricading the way to the unknown. The spoken of in choked up breaths. Displaced throats echo into mouths born generations...
by Prerana Kumar | Feb 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
A part of my body is dead, hardened and now so hard you could use it as a door knocker or the beak of a woodpecker; it has turned the soot of Black Death, of Shanghai smog; I want to crack a nut on it like a squirrel, parched walnut brains waiting...
