by Danielle | Mar 18, 2025 | Guest Poems
Anvils I have this dreamof anvils droppingfrom a quiet sky. A scene in a B-moviefrom the Cold War erain glorious black and white. A heavenly protestfrom the gods of waras they lay down their tools. A Dali paintingof shadows fallingon the face of the earth. Or just a...
by Danielle | Mar 11, 2025 | Guest Poems
Satisfaction Sometimes, it is the common things that give satisfaction,such as chopping onions, peppers and tomatoesdespite me rarely enjoying cooking apart from the result,sharing food with the one who brings some real point to life,one who lifts me above the...
by Danielle | Mar 11, 2025 | Guest Poems
A Winter Morning Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm! (Lear) My heart forgets …(Burns, ‘A Winter Night’) The globe has got its change on and frostthe artificer has strolledmadly through the world with a...
by Danielle | Feb 21, 2025 | News
Poets Koleka Putuma and Daljit Nagra collaboration “Your Legacies are Preserved Here” was read at the unveiling of The Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial in South Africa. Created by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the new site honours over 1,700...
by Danielle | Feb 21, 2025 | Guest Poems
She Sews the Starsafter a quilt by Harriet Powers Harriet takes strips of calico,old dungarees. Stitches storiesto warm her children. Job prays for his enemies. Moses lifts up the serpentin the wilderness. A dark day in May. The stars fall.In the Garden of Eden, God’s...
