by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Sep 23, 2026 | Poetry, Uncategorized
Not for me Glasnevin Nor its Irish revolutionaries. Not for me the slate rain on my headstone for ten months of the year and intermittent showers in the other two. Not for me the tomb of Irish soil. Put me on a plane and let me make one last...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Jul 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
Out a found poem from a Google search ‘define out’ no longer detained in prison in the middle of nowhere no longer involved in a competition not at home or one’s place of work away from the goal the finishing line the designated playing area...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 28, 2026 | Featured, Prose, Uncategorized
Thunderstorms. Fireworks. I’m in the spare bedroom/office. Chrysty’s in a rotten bad mood. she walks the apartment like a donkey stable. kicks holes out of drywall and violently washes up plates. she’s told me get out and I’ve...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 27, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Uncategorized
How to get here Among the joys of love was when we got our first apartment on a boulevard above the trams and tree-tops and the wires that cut the street like tangram puzzles and our friends would come with olives and cheap wine they found the...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 26, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Uncategorized
Khair At the feet of al-Ka‘ba you asked for a daughter. You named me Khair – Blessing. I answered inside you forcing myself into your ribs remaking you in the emptiness of your lungs. in the space he made— his shoes left in the...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bay Laurel My last will and testament is to be buried under the bay tree flourishing in my back garden. Standing there, year after year, like a planted woman taken from again and again. One day, her leaves will no longer replenish. But for now she...
