Category: Poetry

He came and left a rot inside her womb.   She lay there naked curled around her blight   that rotted till her famine would consume   the ridges dug inside her skin that night.   He told her he would build them both a home:   A kitchen with a cross above the door.   Then turned the bedroom to […]

The following is an excerpt of a real journal entry I wrote in July, edited for publication and privacy. It is my attempt to word unspeakable violence, to mould the visceral with a vocabulary built for logic and softness. It is reflection, story, prose poetry, word vomit. I doomscrolled through videos of Gaza tonight and […]

I mourn for Palestine  A land of peace and olive trees  A land that has seen nothing but suffering for 75 years  A land that welcomed everyone with open arms, only for their people to be murdered by ruthless bombs  They steal our lands and steal our farms and swear it is their birthright  Then […]

i lie awake at night with my heart racing and with my brain catastrophising. i don’t know if it really counts as catastrophising though. how can it be if the waking nightmares i conjure aren’t far-fetched fantastical situations? everything i imagine is what i have been told by doctors could realistically be my future and […]

In a moment, your mind stops working.  By the second, it tries to process things.  Within minutes, you start denying—  That’s when sadness and confusion begin to kick in.  In hours, it feels like everything is falling from the sky.  As days turn to nights, and weeks go by,  You still suffer, but get used […]

1 2 3 4 5 six 7  Door closed, window closed, fan on. Check wardrobes to make sure nobody is inside. Close wardrobe doors. Check wardrobe doors are closed. Check again. Double check. Are you even trying? Check again.   1 2 3 4 5 six 7   Turn desk chair so it isn’t facing you. Check […]

Brittle leaves crack with the promise of lifein the paw of a Beast I’ve tracked for some time.We have long since mastered the dance of the hunt,I was sure of the kill like I was sure of the cut. I had met this Beast just once beforewhen I thought I’d lost the path of its […]

From the beginning you have been there. From the time at which I wake to the time I sleep you are there and   Unlike the experiences with which I fill my days that come and go as they please, you have stayed with me through it all as a constant    Companion. You bring me weakness […]