by Desree | Nov 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
i collect items left behind by ex-boyfriends as if they are souvenirs i count myself lucky and hold my breath in the shower to practice peace on days that feel like a blister i know somewhere children are laughing and you are folding your favourite pair...
by Desree | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Kleptomaniac Lover, all my life I’ve been lightfingered to the nth degree finagling what wasn’t mine, some rings and lipstick, once a dress her sun-drained hair, a hidden glance two books I loved yet never read family heirlooms,...
by Desree | Nov 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
THE CHILD BECOMES A PARENT She comes bearing gifts and apologies Giving love out of guilt From my days as an embryo, I knew her Whispers in my phone past bedtime Climbing through the window past curfews Teenage angst and my insecurity shows ‘I hate...
by Desree | Nov 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Lifesaving practice We make a strange creature, him and I. Father and son, endlessly enacting death and resurrection in the local pool. Locked in an awkward embrace, my back forever to his front. My heart balancing on his heart; smooth wet pebble...
by Desree | Nov 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
morphine the first time i drank morphine a weight slid over my heart & the whole summer collapsed under me my head packed with ice phone overflowing with garbled texts & all because of this vertebra a firecracker in a...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 20, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Out nights were forest with foliage too dense to let in the light of moon and stars – and days were savannah prairie steppe – glory and danger in strangeness of mountain and sea and river – survival was tracking the flock to the watering hole...
