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...

Lightener of Stars by Dylan Willoughby

Sharp the placenames of reliquary Bitter the taste of the buried I stand hunched by the Lake of Saints Disinter my brutal brutalized heartVouchsafe passage to the newly birthedTo the freshly dead and to the undying  Lightener of stars, ghost of the hollybushBeware...

Selected Poems by Stephen Barile

Tehachapi Earthquake of 1952   Earthquake!my mother yelled when the bed moved across the roomjust before 5 a.m., July 21, 1952. She raninto the street in her nightgown, Screaming and crying,the sticky night turning quickly to day. With no sensefor the White Wolf...

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