Max Pasakorn
Issue 1: RISE, July 2023
where i still live on the glaze of the ocean & the sun shows up to work in a t-shirt that says something meaningless like, “Go Slay The Day, Mama!!” & my home is snug enough to house my obsession of seaweed paintings & i cash in my daylight savings as an offering to El Nino & i bring the shaver to my coconut cheeks, my jellyfish beard, my tadpole throat & my boyfriend fills the laundry with seashells & we twine our fingers like two lions’ manes criss-crossed into friendship bracelets & i sequence cheques into a flamingo pause & i nap into an octopus-spread, where cherries pick us up by our potato-pimpled hands and how likely we are to help them sprout
Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is a queer, Thai-born, Singapore-based essayist and poet. Max’s writing, which has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is a finalist for the SFPA Rhysling Award, can be found in Speculative Nonfiction, Chestnut Review, Strange Horizons and more. Read Max at www.maxpasakorn.works