The sun’s my favourite jewel of all. I’m jealous; the plants that take you in to breathe. That whisper underneath your feet It’s love, sure, its chemical too, Juice, never from concentrate. Close your eyes and bite the rays A homemade buried treasure found; This orange; tell it “you are the sun” Light we stashed […]
Before we landed in Krakow, my boyfriend and I agreed that we weren’t boyfriends anymore. We weren’t breaking up. Instead, we were freezing our relationship for the weekend, even though we’d be around each other exclusively for the next seventy-two hours. We would pick up where we left off as soon as our Ryanair flight grounded […]
I sit in silence in my little parkette oasis, existing in a momentary escape from the pulsating city that no longer embodies the space I once called home. Taking in the nature that envelops me, I desperately try to block out the sounds of the thriving urban life and centre my senses to focus on […]
There’s an ancient capital town we have found a tiny space in, between the sandstone tenement buildings and the cobble stone roads, and the tourist-filled corner shops we visit and buy shortbread from, and the coffee shops we meet in once a week, twice a week, three times; earl grey sipping, we make sense of […]
LETTER HOME The night of nights approaches From somewhere bright with day No score is left to settle, the games are left to play. The lull of lemon zanies, On fruitcake fields of gray, Delights the doldrum downing A screaming gleam away. Be near and still, be silent, There is no spell to tell, And […]