James McDermott

by | Feb 11, 2021 | Featured, Poetry

    TAMAGOTCHI the tamagotchi was   a key   chain sized egg   shaped   computer   with screen   three buttons the tamagotchis were   small aliens like me   who   had   put down   an egg   on Earth to see what life was like   the player had to raise   the...

Karishma Sangtani

by | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, Poetry

    In Memory of Bhau I have just woken up on a stern mattress in the living room again. I sit up, my hands pressing the night out of my body. There is that devoted din of a ceiling fan, blowing clumps of dust between the sofas. And spread across the walls,...

Leah Larwood

by | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured, Poetry

    From under the wardrobe the naked bulb on the ceiling is an oddly lit glass balloon, bobbing riskily upside down in the winter sky. There’s an unfriendly quality in my shoulder; I’m packed like a fugitive’s suitcase, roughly. Buried under hanged clothes...

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

by | Feb 8, 2021 | Featured, Poetry

      Looking Upwards These stones overhead, comets juggling omens… What’s the distance between nothing and no other thing? We eye the sky thinking of a science to replace it with. Has anybody flown to holiness from a language? To bliss from...

Fokkina McDonnel

by | Feb 7, 2021 | Featured, Poetry

    what will you do now you’re alone in the sun ask your shadow to leave you for a while send your shadow to market where it can frighten chickens, the women selling red powder let your shadow enter the forest of tall trees stroke the snouts of grunting...