Category: Hand Picked
The best way to silence demons
Posted by Talia Mirza | Jun 20, 2019 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
The Key by Gary Duehr
by admin | Jan 18, 2025 | Blog, Hand Picked | 0
In the middle of the night, I heard a long screech outside like a fingernail digging into a...
Read MoreMan-Handling by Raza Ijaz
by admin | Jan 15, 2025 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
I come from a family where the men die early, which is to say I was raised by women. My childhood...
Read MoreYOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PERFORMER, NEVER JUST A PERSON by Fatima Aamer Bilal
by admin | Jan 8, 2025 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
My disappearing darling, you sail with an anchorless boat, bolting from the dockyard as soon as...
Read MoreMahpeykar by Sheikha A.
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
He fell like rain on my scaled ribs; weight of night, a canopying cove....
Read MoreLost in Translation by John Drew
by admin | Dec 13, 2024 | Hand Picked, Prose | 0
Would you agree, Afshan, that all poetry is an act of “translation” – that Latinate variant...
Read MoreA WALK WITH YOU THROUGH THE PARK AT NIGHT by John Grey
by admin | Dec 5, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
You walk ahead yet moonlight keeps you in its sights. You move...
Read MoreTo my unkept sanity by Furqan Ali
by admin | Nov 27, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
I hit home with a punctured tyre, and fractured femur. Now pour, honey, sparkling coffee...
Read MoreAn Eyes called Green by Arjun Razdan
by admin | Nov 8, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
The mouth is hers, thin to the left. The lips are shiny and bulbous. A small sheen shines over the...
Read MoreCuriosity by Peter Mladinic
by admin | Sep 9, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
What did you expect to find? A postcard from Bosnia, a playbill from The Sound of Music, a...
Read MoreTransfiguration by Krystle Eilen
by admin | Sep 4, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
You are too beautiful to be spared— you must die to yourself. Unveil your glittering...
Read MoreHeaven’s a place on earth with you by Timsal Fatima
by admin | Aug 28, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
I imagine us on a paper boat under the raining sky, Where I can show you the saddest parts of me....
Read MoreEast vs West: A Synoptic Cultural Comparison by Yuan Changming
by admin | Jun 24, 2024 | Hand Picked, Poetry | 0
During the great flood Noah hid himself in the ark While Dayu tried to contain it...
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