Street cleaners
roving across the path like
wild buffalo. Leaving
tire marks in their wake.

A speaker sheltered
in the primark alcove.
Hot rain pooling
in the roads dip.

A basement bar
with no menu.
Botanical trimmings
in neat plastic packets.

It rains sharp vertical lines on
a nation of strangers
Yet we huddle
We share the inlets,
the canopies.

—Published 5th of June 2026

About Gabrielle Fullam

Gabrielle Fullam is an Irish-Punjabi writer based in London. Her work has appeared in Icarus, Fruit!, Litro, Bending Genres, Lesbian Art Circle, Channel Magazine, Sanxtuary Magazine, The Liminal: Notes on Life, Race, and Direct Provision in Ireland, among others. She was awarded the Whitechapel Gallery Young Writer in Residence 2024. She is a previous editor of Icarus Magazine, previous Deputy Editor of Trinity Women and Gender Minorities Review, and editor of Holding the Archive produced in collaboration with the National HIV Stories Trust. She studied philosophy and sociology at Trinity College Dublin, where she served as Student Union president, and she is currently undertaking an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University.