Selkies by Emma Wells

Selkies   Seductive seal skin is my coat –zippered for ease of removal;I slip in and out of worldsboth human and mythical praying that one day my skin knots to backbone,binds as spines to published pages completing the bleary badgeof a true, life-worn selkie:for...

Displacement Activity by Emma Lee

A pebble dropped will displace its own volume of water. Observers, concerned only with measuring volume, don’t care about the separated water or the guilt of the pebble. On social media, someone posts a detailed home-school schedule, house-keeping tips, recipes, and...

Talking about the weather by Myrna Al-Tajuri

I don’t like to be perceived   my favourite Aquarius quip   said with a chuckle and my whole chest – for eyes on my skin, small hellos and howeyas  in smoking areas and bathroom queues /   imagined passengers in passing cars   feel like scalpel incisions – the flaying...

Pomegranate for Beginners & Kouridashi by Bluey Little

Pomegranate for Beginners   start with a bruised  body and the wrong knife,take a hound’s eye: follow   the pierce and spatter,little globules seething as red thumbs digto outrun the decay.    Kouridashi   prime your eye for an act of decreation; my finest...

Solve for Why by Adilyah Taller

Numbers Numbers make sense to me, they always have Solve for ZSolve for XSolve for Y With numbers there is always a solution,an answer,a clear rightand wrong,an obvious blackand white Black and white questionson black and white paperwith black and white answersand...

Hiatus by Shikha Sawhney Lamba

Written after the death of Mahsa Amini  Some days, some part of me refuses to put pain down on paper. These are the days I pull away, stretch myself to a place where I know we are not all grieving. On some days, I have to diversify my language, revise my tongue, which...

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