• Eh Cher

    Cheng Him Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 In times to come, will there be people who will have real faith in theseteachings? – The Diamond Sutra ah seng ah, when you go to school remember hor, dont ownself own ownself. what the teacher say is what the teacher say. ask yourself: what is it ah…

  • The Year of Daughters

    Jamie Uy Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 you were born during hungry ghost month. in the basement a wet kitchenand buddha. a fat milkfish gutted for your first birthday, with one hundredand eighty translucent bones. while the radio cassette played the chantingof monks in their saffron robes, you were baptised in an alabaster church.your mother…

  • Memento Vivere

    Gloria Tang Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 “Memento Vivere”, which translates to “Remember you must die, so remember to live”, is a phrase that I started trying to live by in my last year of junior college, which this painting aims to depict the essence of. The wreath in the painting represents the unstoppable passage…

  • A Pandemic Philosophy of Things

    Christian Yeo Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 The rapeseed fields are parsing through what belongs to memory and what to loneliness. I sleep with a turn of phrase, then awake reciting its name. The schools are welcoming back bicycle-bound children in this lung of a town. In spite of the year I hold my peace…

  • fish head curry

    (with thanks to Han Sai Por’s ‘Shimmering Pearls’) Daryl Lim Wei Jie Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 growing up I remember being stunned by how late Ma left the office (often we would have dinner without her after waiting in vain) when we managed to get her it’d be after waiting near the office at…

  • The Ship

    Kevin Martens Wong Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 It is night. Lest one forget, it is almost always night when it arrives, everywhere in the multiverse, everywhere else but on one, quickly tilting side of the Earth; but also only somewhat dark, very rarely stormy. (How hard it is, remember, for things to land safely…