by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 23, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Finely balanced He’s a house of cards, a delicately balanced pyramid held together by hearing aids and dusty bifocals and wobbling dentures and ageing pacemaker and shirt with three buttons missing in action and tea-stained cardigan with more...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 22, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Unexploded Bombs You became obsessed with nucleated red blood cells when you peeked through an aperture window at your liquid, viscous nature. You became obsessed with maps after an unexploded bomb exposed a Second World War timeline fault...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Window of tolerance we’re trying to construct a frame for this highly reactive impulsive emotion the nurse is looking into it meanwhile we must find something cold to hold lick it we’re trying to expand the tolerance – think of a moth...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Strange Brew Anne dances to the beat of my childish heart, sings to cobwebbed spiders. She is nanny number five, my own Mary Poppins. By the light of a wolf moon, my father turns mad. Anne whispers to a girl in the wind, and a friend blows into my life....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 19, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Revenge Squirrels dream of a cougar, a cougar given permission to crouch like an assassin awaiting its prey, its target; a cougar concealed in the squirrel tree. Squirrels scowl, chitter at the woman who once fed them corn and bread until she met...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Three Jackdaws Three jackdaws walked widdershins around the birdfeeding station. A fat woodpigeon, pompous, hieratic, tried to undo their magic by walking from four to six. For a moment, the two birdfeeders, full of seeds and nuts, were the...
