• Wayfinding

    after Marla Bendini’s Where are we going? Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 Tell me the one about the wine-dark sea. Goddess, I wander and am lost. A man told me once that he was tired of hearing songs about the sky, felt that everything the heavens held had been touched so many…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Minutes on a Wholehearted En-Bloc Sale

    Natalie Fock Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 Natalie is currently reading Law in the United Kingdom, barely escaping Singapore’s threatening heat. In search of catharsis, she tends to the written word as an output, more often resulting in further confusion. Her work was previously featured in the Singapore Poetry Festival and in online publications such…