by Helen Ivory | Nov 2, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Cure I knew what my poison was I drank to more than enough I drank like drinking would give answers to questions I haven’t asked yet I built a cage out of the pieces of my bad self binding steel plate to hollow bones fusing old scars to fresh...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Mute like attracts want – want ignites desire I wake up and my entire life has passed – I’m old and frail, limbs rigid, my breath appears in small puffs they’ve already chosen my gravestone, a chunk of fieldstone – small but quaint except it...
by Desree | Oct 31, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
“GOTHS AREN’T BLACK” BUT YOU’D STARE ANYWAY, AND I CAN SMOKE TREE BOP ON THE CORNER TO BLACK METAL OR BASHMENT, IN PLATFORM BOOTS OR NIKE BLAZERS BECAUSE I AM STILL THE ONLY SPECTACLE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. IT IS BRAIDS KNOTTED INTO NOOSES,...
by Desree | Oct 30, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Man-Made For the victims and survivors of male violence and the system that enables it. CW: rape, sexual violence, police brutality, genocide, racism. Raised by West Indian matriarchs I was taught by Black women about whiteness and patriarchy where women...
by Desree | Oct 29, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Blessing at Arms’ Length a setting-down ritual I can’t begin to speak a blessing any more than I can reach a coat hanger from my chair. I only know how to say come in, welcome, dear Brigantia, into the home of my hand, my heart, my...
by Desree | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Commodity Fetishization Buy buy buy consume consume consume Faster faster faster harder harder harder Deeper deeper deeper devour devour devour Rose Knapp (she/they) is a poet and electronic producer. She has publications in...
