The COVID-19 pandemic dominated the globe for at least three years, and infected a large proportion of the worldwide population. After the acute infection, many stay in poor health for months. The nature of this aftermath is not yet fully understood, therefore the management of this syndrome through biomedical therapy is not ideal. Health services are struggling to help those who are still suffering. The condition has now been recognised as post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) — providing a common...

In Lapis, poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend. Using a wide array of lyric forms and meditations, Webster explores matrilineages both familial and poetic, weaving together death, spirituality, women, and a sense of the shifting earth into one "doctrine of Non-linear Revelation."ElegyAnd I was equal to my longing:the mums blackening;sorrow a carboned figurine;

Song of the Husbandsfor HenryAll winter the kind husbands hoverlike mortgaged angels. Onesmells gasoline in his sleep, wouldbe my lover. They want meto be well. Specimen, they say, andmean endearment. I rowinto the flood. The vodkaturns the lemon to crystal, thecarp turn the pond to shit and hunger,the lingerie turns the trunkfulof lingerie into a special trunk.And the husbands, t...