Down By by Kat Sinclair

Shapeless red sack dress and river into which my colours ran last time I ever saw my grandfather take a cigarette and miss those collectible cards my whole family cried save me and Dad who rolled eyes and I who had just learned criteria for a proper Gothic...
Circus Town by Linda Paoli

Circus Town by Linda Paoli

Maybe we’re doing everything wrong in this fake town A fake town and its fake people swaying together pretending we Don’t hear the cold winds of youth blowing hard tonight Shattering the congruity of the streets Maybe it’s just me, but if I hear the...

Biscuit spread by Nehaal Bajwa

I like to stroke the unsullied top of the biscuit spread Private and confidential, like a letter informing you of banking charges levied specifically at you, the – sweetest, my Fahrenheit sod Bringing me offerings that look like warmth dovetailing with utopian (i.e....

Mother by Nehaal Bajwa

Sometimes when a friend makes some kind of sexual overture it feels hard, a tug back, a shortening of the rope keeping your bullshit at bay but there, still, behind you. Imagine walking across an A- road, you are in London, so it’s no joke, and for some reason,...