by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 27, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The long arc I seek justice and you hold a seashell to your ear hear oceans whispering limitless sssshhh history heaps sheering waves shattering across reefs sweeping shallow bays rearing breakers pound shelving beaches scatter shells with...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 26, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Something Missing He cuts. I lie still, teach myself to dream of St David’s Bay, seaweed strewn on incoming tides, surfers slice big waves in half. He butchers with hammer, saw. No nightmares, though he says it’s possible-you could wake in the...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 25, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Being Morandi’s Bottle I pull a dress over my head calm foggy blue linen sleeved in lavender, press frizzed hair between two hot blades. I drag a lipliner across my cupid’s bow like a violinist gliding hair over string hovering on a velvety G. I...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 24, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The sea organ city Vigo in Autumn is still a furnace the nightjars roost on ram-tarmacked roads and hot guapas carrying fish baskets in narrow alleys or chestnut groves leading to the sands listen to me hola gracias and other various offences and...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 23, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Bourn Identity Begins in a bubble strained by chalk. Where the brim-full hill cries, weeping tracks merge into an idea of brook: Letcombe, until merging with Ock. Earth accommodates to accumulate, hollows between course, force and...
by Sairah Ahsan | Feb 22, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Watermarked There are places in Wales I don’t go: reservoirs that are the subconscious of a people – R S Thomas Cofiwch Dryweryn, that two-word protest, white on blood-red background, landscaped in green, mural on a ruined Llanrhystud cottage,...
