November 3, 2021
Poetry: "My people are people who still smoke cigarettes in bed..."
November 17, 2021
Poetry: "She studied the braille / of his back in the / grey before morning..."
December 1, 2021
Poetry: "In the basement we found his tools for separating Siamese Twins..."
December 8, 2021
Poetry: "His shirt side-pulled, her rosy palm creams
whipped egg-white and eggplant flesh..."
December 15, 2021
Poetry: "unsure about her arrangement: I have /
never seen him in a suit in bed. Thinner, /
longer, he looks so serious with his halo..."
January 17, 2023
"What is happening in Iran is heart-breaking, and this poem is testament to that, it is also paying homage to my Father and my Persian heritage, of which I'm so proud."
April 27, 2023
They were stones in a champagne flute,
I was always bound to smash.
But they were there for a while,
hanging on, two faceless punters waiting
for the gag, and then it all slipped out
of me as easily as a giggle. Once is a mistake.
Twice is careless. By the end of it
you could hear a pin drop in my heart.
I was always bound to smash.
But they were there for a while,
hanging on, two faceless punters waiting
for the gag, and then it all slipped out
of me as easily as a giggle. Once is a mistake.
Twice is careless. By the end of it
you could hear a pin drop in my heart.
May 16, 2023
"is there something in adopting the voice of a god, but giving him very human qualities and frailties? It turned out that adopting a persona that revolved at once about both being powerful and powerless was a great parallel for exploring subjects like climate change."