In a watercolour style. Illustration of sumac plants growing together. The leaves and bush are green, and the sumac petals are red with flecks of orange.
  • A Yellow Carnation

    A month ago / my boyfriend gave me a carnation / I didn’t want it / but now I’m stuck…

  • In the Weeds

    I met you on a Tuesday / Lost in the woods / And your dandelion-seed touch / Set my worried…

  • Thirst

    A Microsoft 365 subscription costs 179 dollarydoos, equating 15 / pints per annum. Therefore, you should stay / on mine,…

  • Wet Gore

    One must imagine, the Kayal that flows to the sea, / to be pristine, to be untouched. / Allowed to be.…

  • Centipede

    I fought with you again last night. // Your mossy curls, longer now, / hang from tired branches and sway…

  • Curiosity

    Upon the steps of the mighty Parthenon, so stood Polias, the high priestess of the Greeks’ golden age: poised tall,…

  • God-Eaters

    I am walking to the bus stop / when I come across a dinner party / I was not invited…

  • I Love Potatoes!

    “We love potatoes. But no one loves potatoes as much as my daughter.” My face used to burn when my…

  • what theatre people believe in

    new perspective, renewal / can’t imagine mere semantics / cool confesses    salt of the earth    pulling the trigger to heaven…

  • Inglis Court

    There is a house up for sale on Inglis Court / It has red brick and white windows with black…

  • Moon-Drunk

    I was sitting on my usual armchair facing my therapist, holding a large canvas against my lap. “Should I show…

  • Night Ritual

    stretched out honeyed wavelengths // flow from the “deep sleep meditation” playlist / through the tangled earbuds / and slowly…

  • The Devil’s Deal

    “Please, Miss? Can you help me?” The girl is quite ill; that much is obvious. Such a little thing—she couldn’t…

  • The Peephole

    I can hear the distant sputtering of the generator shutting down through the shabby wooden walls of the outhouse. The…

  • Homo scriptor

    Observe! The writer in their natural habitat // cacophonous cafés, claustrophobic bookshelf crevasses, / a modest desk under the waning…

  • Clean Boost

    After Emily and I make our patio promise, she sends me off with her guitarist, Jimmy. He has nothing planned…

  • HUNGER

    A chocolate sprite caressed my tongue / And told me, in a voice high-strung, / Yet whispered, like a lover,…

  • Smoothie

    I get one of those big industrial blenders / and I start tossing in / pineapple / and yogurt /…

  • The walls are thin

    I dream of predictable shapes / and tessellate my house with floor tiles curving up walls / roof slates overlapping…

  • The Soil that Rots

    Have you heard of the soil that rots? / A land of wither, a land of decay, / A land…

  • The White

    I don’t like it when we have to go into the bunker on the hill. Mummy says it’s to keep…

  • Friend

    Hip-firing my Barrett 50 cal / Say hello to my ONLY FRIEND / 1 haha react. Scarface / run in…

  • Cold Steel

    It smells like shit. I can do better than that. It smells like death, like rotting flesh. The worst part…

  • Anatomies of Fault

    I did it to myself, Clara thought, then added: I did it to all of us. She walked with a…

  • To Make A Raspberry

    For ten years my husband and I have been counting pollinators. Around mid-February we print off our identification sheets, grab…

  • Yarn

    The sun hangs low on the village of one street. Gripping a basket full of yarn, the witch shuffles past…