by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Containment I drive your lemon yellow Smart ForTwo six hundred miles home from your flat— stuffed to the roof, my suitcase crammed on top, your miniature car swells to welcome a pile of your leavings, rescued from Junk-It Ltd. house clearance:...
by Leah Jun Oh | Jan 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A Parishioner Complains at a Parish Church Council When We Move the Time of Evensong You have changed the Bible you have changed the words in the service you have brought in girls to serve at the altar and women can now be sidesmen and any minute...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 15, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A dental technician rips up a postcard of dental puns Have you known the suffering wrought by damaged mouths? Or the solemn joy of healing? Have you reckoned with the uses of dental records? Think through the murdered and the long dead; think of things...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 14, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
coffee and the interconnectedness of all things i like the darkness of it, the bitterness, the ring of light reflected on the surface. i like the story. the crushed beans. the crop growing on the side of a mountain. i like the journey, but in...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Escape from the Novinskaya Women’s Prison, Moscow, 1909 Let’s imagine the doors that scraped the freshly cemented floors as a gaggle of raindrops escaped from a gutter, the timetabled chores in the crypts for their needles and cradles, the chapels...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Woods The teacher sighed, as the snow piled up outside, mountain after mountain. The children listened, as the North wind howled, winter after winter. ‘That will be all for today, children,’ the teacher said. The students rushed over to pegs,...
