by Sofía Masondo | Oct 28, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Roses Sad how things expire before you work out what they mean. Like earlier I was noticing the rose petals on the path, all damp and slick, and thinking how I will never be truly happy for a thousand uncontested reasons. But now, things are clearing up. I look at the...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 27, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
For the Peregrines of Offham Chalk Pit The quarry holds your eyrie like a grateful palm. You – indelicate gobber all gape and gum-pink circled in the beach white like a mouth stuck in wonder. O spit-shrieker coming back for yourself, tearing fur so diligently,...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 26, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Give Me Some Sparkle, and I’ll Pay You What You Ask For The cat puts his paw on my hair, and I think about where we could go if we weren’t here. Maybe the nail salon, which seems like a good destination for kill time Saturdays. Except that the proprietor always...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Dear Fish, Forgive Me Dear Fish, you swam from life and gave your flesh; forgive me. In your ice-tomb, your scales a rainbow of tiny glaciers, frozen in flight; like you, I let myself get caught, sank my heart in a false sea. Factory-ripe, hooked...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
When I Met God for the First Time The God I know works as a baker in a local shop. From time to time, I see him feeding the kittens bread crumbs soaked in milk. He is not as huge as the religious men tell us; his hand is small, a normal size like all of ours. He even...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Rhubarb after Norman MacCaig And another thing: stop looking like embarrassed celery. It doesn’t suit. How can you stand there, glittery in pink, some of you rigid, some all over the shop? Deep down you’re marooned, a sour forest spilling out beneath a harmful canopy....
