• Permacrisis Is Word Of The Year

    Miguel Barretto García Issue 2: Vanishing, Jan 2024 Winter is here but the cold won’t stop The world from burning. I do what I have to do. Laundry. Water my plants And bury my cat. There are a hundred Mothers shrieking on my couch When onion and cabbage prices Have gone up. I turn the…

  • sekolah melayu

    Pulau Tekong, Singapore, 2016 Jonathan Chan Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 Jonathan Chan is a writer and editor of poems and essays. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore and educated at Cambridge and Yale Universities. He is the author of the poetry collection going…

  • before, above

    Qamar Firdaus Saini Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 ham ham squeaks to let the night in. his hind leg’s upright, body pulled above the horizontal, wheel spinning, gathering the dark.see how it washes and bogs this room. i lie. my body a spindle, our memories of seattle spooling – the park at kirkland, molly moon’s…

  • the wound is where light enters

    Qamar Firdaus Saini Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 i think about cows and how you don’t eat beef for non-religious reasons. there is an after- taste i can’t describe – when our tongues meet i remember the twang of guitar strings, my shoulder dislocating from the weight of your head, my anchor, or our combined…

  • SOURSOP

    Euginia Tan Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 an ear shaped fruit listening to pulses from wrists, twisting the thorny green harvest into baskets the depth of small tubs it hears the slice of knife oozing guts of white pulp black beads of seed gleaming like eyes wide awake at the crack of dawn a palm…

  • Post-Construction #1

    Lune Loh Issue 1: RISE, July 2023 @: Not much of the ooziness left in myhappy. am composed of shining, thefaceted which is its own collapsible. *: All these chances not for granted,given that it’s taken for. she finds amnot in the dice; meaty numbers roll.Off our spines in cartographies:marks red and pulped and aware…