Silence like emptiness, is reciprocal when you speak against a wall, knowing …
The nature of loss
(Audrey Molloy)
Widow-makers, they call your boughs that plunge without warning, crush soft bodies beneath. Yet I know you are not death but grief’s balled fist come down. For seven years I decompose below your …
Pezzi (Josephine Clarke)
hanging on the line torn cloth, too threadbare for sheets but good enough for you for between your legs on the cursed days clots caught slipping as you walked the …
Common Tongue (Miguel Jacq)
i. A weekday, cocooned somewhere in my twenties, one father and his son suspended in a lift shaft an everyday moment, a faraday cage moment until a phone call makes …
Why You Stopped Making Things (Lucy Dougan)
The Wallpaper The wallpaper was a forest. You had put it up with your father. You let me into the new dappled world behind your desk. When you sat in …
i am the most fortunate person on this earth (Jennifer Compton)
it is silent my open door lets in a cool pre-dawn breath my husband is asleep everyone to the north south east and west of me is asleep i love …
Bloom (Les Wicks)
Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees …
Animal (Kit Kelen)
a kind of creature my love comes of its own wilderness furry here and there dangling with suspended eye might have been a rock but moves and proves the eye …
Migraine (Stuart Barnes)
A pain in the neck. Brume spuming at the eye’s dead centre, odd digits prodding sockets, inner ear’s even keel. Eely fevers no anal -gesic can truly cure. Half-mask …
Man out of Time (Justin Lowe)
he was everyone’s friend everyone’s confidante he slotted in nicely under a crooked arm he was a kind of bellwether people would cross the room to greet him they always …