two thousand and twenty years: an anthology After two thousand and twenty years of apathy, society faces retribution — not in the wake of a messianic God but instead in […]
Sunny eyes and gleaming teeth warm the still empty space in my room. Even in the middle of the night I hear the rumbling from his belly deep almost mimicking the panting laughterof a […]
MESA SA KWARTO If ideas are made in the mind, where do they materialise? In any advanced society, the corporeal act of drawing, inscribing, sculpting, and even tasting often takes […]
MADE IN ASEAN: Online Exhibition www.aseanvisionproject.com Who is Southeast Asia made of? We must beg this question of who instead of what, because decades after Southeast Asian countries’ colonial histories the search […]
But you couldn’t even read my mindeven if I were an open book, so to speak,a conduit for expletives and clichés if I were only, truly, as you imagined For a […]
You cannot sing your breath is gushing with water your lungs are pumping gasps instead of gas When love is a cube perfected extremes that stretch straight to the core […]
Open the windows and let the scarce summer wind conjure figments and fragments distant memories. Remember how we were told to stay indoors from March until May only to let […]
I am filled with your song, your intense serenade the happiness in your eyes grips me, seduces me, the sadness that you bring beckons me, calls my name, commands me, […]
Once more, I write on paper once more, I acquaint myself with an object so familiar with my eyes, nose, lips, fingertips and ears once more, I write on paper. […]
Spaces are shaped by sound, the ticking time allows me to see. Eyes closed, I find many ways to sleep but there’s no way to silence my heartbeat. Sounds shaped […]