• SUTURE

    Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 SUTURE was originally published in the journal OF ZOOS. Portions of this text have appeared in the journal Minarets and the anthologies A Given Grace (Squircle Line Press 2021) and New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022). Andrew Kirkrose Devadason (he/him; b. 1997) is a Singaporean poet and student of linguistics. Under his birth…

  • The Scroll of Spilling Out Like Wet Rice

    Tse Hao Guang Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 to the towering city of books with a faint heart and the ripple of my face in a pool of rainwater, water which is like the wisdom of the ancients whereas the wisdom of the moderns is like light striking the sign of the dimsum restaurant, wooden…

  • Asemic Writings

    Zheng Jialei Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 In response to Tse Hao Guang’s poems from The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association Zheng Jialei is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the concerns of diaspora andthe fragmentation of her cultural identity. She has exhibited at Starch, as part of Walk Walk Don’t Run 2023.

  • The Start Is the End and the End Starts Again

    Marla Bendini Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 In response to Andrew Devadason’s in endless iteration Marla Bendini (she/her/they/them) is a cross-disciplinary trans and non-binary artist working in painting, text, installation, sound and performance to articulate the infinitely faceted transgender experience on their own terms.

  • guidelines on the use of common areas in housing development board estates

    Nathaniel Chew Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 take the stairs at their words: scrimshaw, scabland, rag and bone. take everything the rust-kissed shopping cart will rockabye: tarp blanket settling new landscape, self portrait as blackened joss tin, newsprint cairn, sole bicycle wheel flayed to spoke. speak of wisps sculpting collars, slow exhale of humid night…

  • sunday in ordinary time

    Nathaniel Chew Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 oldsame bodies in the season’s chairs, assuming round table positions a truth beside gospel. those who still believe play musical prayers until grace lukewarms, piecemeal in many mouths. post-credit-style popo continues after amen, give us good health like she is miracling the cabbage into a greener body. constant…