Literary Yard

Search for meaning

Year: 2026

man in apron wiping hands with towel

Base Notes

By: Brian ScottThe first thing Katrin did was announce herself. She did it in the foyer outside the men’s room, the moment Martin and I brushed shoulders: a sweetness with a skin on it, like warm milk left standing. “Is…

nature

And Winter…

By: Ananya S Guha Darkness descends even as it is dayIs darkness a colour meant only for the night? Strange October silencesAs winter whispers- I am arrivingOnly the scattered leaves say that autumnHas already come, another season But winter is…

reflective portrait by a calm sunset water

‘Potentiate’ and other poems

By: KJ Hannah Greenberg Potentiate Whenever encountering increases in powers that might maim,Could kill, mostly present aftereffects of implacable persons,Whose homas fill up medical wards, also cemeteries,It’s best to avoid escalations. All in all, catastrophic happenings rarely result from buildupsOf…

man in black hat and black hoodie using a mirror

Self-Aware Software

By: Gregory Ballinger Peter Doyle opened his work emails and sipped his coffee, a morning ritual he had honed into a fine art. Scanning through his messages, he noticed an obscure spam email that had somehow slipped through the net…

silhouette of person in deep thought at sunset

‘Resentment’ and other poems

By: Richard Dulgheriu Resentment I don’t rememberwhen I became angry.That’s the problem.There was no morningwhen I woke upand decidedto hate the world a little.It happened quietly.A little from my father.A little from being poor.A little from watching peoplehave thingsI was…

black and white photo of woman wearing translucent fabric over her face

December Wind’s Dirge

By Tabussum Sumaiya Trembling twilight chills as shadows lengthen wide, Where dying sunsets bow and hidden terrors bide. Wild silhouettes drift lonely in the night’s cold clutch, While frost weaves silver veins through fields of grass. Through brittle flakes, the…

Tristan Tzara in his own words

By: James Aitchison (a dada pantoum) life is cheap, death more expensivelook for medicines and wisdom in songdada = a padded refuge of serpentine complicationscolonial syllogism — no more urinary passages! look for medicines and wisdom in songdada is a…