by Kate Birch | May 12, 2021 | Word & Image
Let the nurses laugh Let the nurses laugh it feels as if laughter has left us I watch your careful hands make a cardboard house for our cat touching the tape; I know your hands have washed corpses spoken to their spirits as calmly as you speak to me now your...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 23, 2021 | Word & Image
What do you keep in your cupboard when it rains? An apple (forever round – forever red) which I bite infinitely wised. I keep you within the dip of my hand, who knits and keeps together my destiny lines, like a zen garden. An ocean of rain water, to drink...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 29, 2021 | Word & Image
Sepia Progressions of Form More than a few things had withered and died in the sunlight of the patio. At first nourished by heat, and then entirely undone by its persistence, leaves dried into their own kind of oblivion. So, their time of beauty was done....
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 15, 2021 | Word & Image
Dan Dorman teaches creative writing and circulates library books. His writing can be found at jubilat, Word for/Word and After the Pause. Connect with him @dan_dorman_us
by Kate Birch | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
my mother is with the stars my mother is with the stars the missing buckle on Orion’s belt holding my favourite constellation in check – the Universe will be organised against its will – my Earth in chaos, still Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com)...
by Memoona Zahid | Feb 28, 2021 | Word & Image
ONCE sunlight splashed like wine across our table where you knelt at work on crayon glyphs announcing your creations two by two Spiral! Spiral! Words turning to songbirds in your mouth dancing helix to my ear one sparrow then a second lifting in defiance of the arrow...
