Continents
It is time to stretch my arms over the blue seas & lie in foreign beds again. my tongue yearns for the salted taste of seasides, comfort & home. I leave again today, pinning myself to opposite ends of this […]
Lands
Lowlands The pressure pops and I’m shocked out of sleep. Up north the heathered hills gave me shelter, But they glowered down like traitorous guards Whose spears would turn if the clouds gathered right. Evening sun lies heavy on […]
The Motherland
The motherland too many dark days and not enough sunlight it really is grim up North My darling years filled with cherry wine and not enough sleep I’m saddened to inform you that my time here has come to an […]
A Wooden Surrender
I wondered what had toppled that torso of sturdy oak, crippled, hollow, beneath a frosted cape of white, recalled how high those branches stretched, to sky, to cloud, far from from the humble earth beneath; I was younger than the […]
Let It Die In Paris
When love is sleeping in the next room and you’re bright clean in the bathroom holding candles facing corners where the life you’ll never live again lives because the moment of introduction was the most beautiful cataclysmic thousand year ice-age […]
Chrysalism
There is a reason I say nothing, why I walk on raised toes, pull up on the door handle to hide the whisper of the carpet, lean but never leave my room, listening listening to the rain listening to the […]
A Letter From The Editor
Home is tricky, made out to be so soft and simple by cliché sayings printed on placemats or recited when no other advice comes. But where am I when I say I’m home, where do I travel back to or […]
Contributors
Lucy Harbron Editor & Founder Woman, writer, student, feminist, burlesque baby & wanna-be Chelsea Hotel girl. www.thingsthebooksforgot.blogspot.com Insta : @lucyharbron_ Twitter : @lucyharbron Rachelle Cox Co-founder Storyteller, artist & photographer attempting to make a difference in the world. I am sorry […]
