Soliloquy because it sounds nice ~ Huzaifa Malik

Apr 27, 2023 | Poetry

“Can you blame me?” – Tariq Luthun   I know that I will one day abandon my child & don’t we all know or choose when death comes for us? I know there is a lover who could love me longer in some part of this continent or another. She will love me & a moment...
Prophesy with Artwork ~ Meera Gupta

Prophesy with Artwork ~ Meera Gupta

Apr 27, 2023 | Art, Ekphrasis, Poetry

Editor’s Note These pieces were submitted as a pair in response to our 2023 ekphrastic initiative.  Prophesy what is this “cruel fate” but a dice rolled by my own palm? i am oedipus and the oracle colliding. I foretold this – swallowing time and sinking heart –...

Childish ~ Emmanuela Eneh

Apr 27, 2023 | Poetry

Mother reminds me:         Mother reminds me:         Mother reminds me:           Mother reminds me:       I remember:     A puffy-cheeked, glarey-eyed child bares her tongue...

common grounds ~ Anonymous

Apr 27, 2023 | Poetry

You went south and I was ugly once more rotting cabbage, blue-green and untouchable Eighteen hours between us no longer close-up, no longer like the back of my hand The feted salted-caramel-mocha-frapuccino this I knew you loved me, you loved coffee, and you hated the...

“WEAK” ~ Emmanuela Eneh

Apr 27, 2023 | Poetry

1. To be (decidedly) incapable of fulfilling one’s purpose. For instance, “I am too weak to wear the mask today, but my elders will roll their eyes, so I will don it anyway.” To be unable to perform to the best of one’s ability, which garners the same reaction as a...