by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Mar 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Trearddur Bay Everything was slate. Outside, the rain made barnacles of water on the wooden slats and waves jumped like giddy children onto the stones. Jellyfish loomed, a cove of beached moons. You stood in your room for hours a rock pool waiting...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Dad You reach the end of the garden path and open the gate. I wait at the door. You reach the vestibule with its mosaic tiled floor with a big hug for me. Daddy’s girl, always. Tea done, you fetch Glen’s lead and we climb the hill to the spread of...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Smile Your smile Woke something – Up. If you knew, You would hate me: Being, this, or that – One thing, or another, I’m not, But love, Mirrored in your smile, I felt it then. Sarah Nabarro lives in London with her husband and small...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Heart Intervenes, a Dream Poem We are four strangers learning to live together in a new suburb where streets are names from the past. “Good morning!” I precipitate crisis in the kitchen by eating biscuits when no one else thought to bring...
by Kate Birch | Mar 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
LULLABY Night drops by In a coat of onyx and blue Lights up his silver pipe And asks how do you do Night perches on my bed Says – kiss goodbye to sleep Blows smoke rings in the air Throws a dreambone at my feet Night wiggles his long...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Mar 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
boudicca you’re a brewery down the road i drank a bottle of your finest on the train back from bury st edmunds the red queen (no one will call you ginger) i see you everywhere realised you were also the wetherspoons round the corner the one with...
