Like a loaf of bread in a birdcage you chase me and I run / like a sheet of beeswax rolled into a candle.
Read moreHow We Will Remember
By Ploi Pirapokin
What happens after a fire? Who dusts, sweeps, and tosses the remains out into open fields, to sow, replant, and tend to new growth? Do you need to know how a burn feels to recognize what it is like to be soothed?
Read moreThree Poems by Nicole Lee
In the house that he built as / the 60s were turning I / find myself standing where I was / once a smart alec kid going / places who sort of looked down / on her parents who wanted the / life reached by climbing a stair / that began somewhere else
Read moreThree Poems by Allan Popa
By Allan Popa / Translation by Bernard Capinpin
There will be days when you’ll shed tears / over breakfast, dipping / the bread into coffee / like when you were a child / because who could’ve imagined / it possible still.
Read moreTwo Poems by Isla McKetta
Child of Reagan, what if the Russian boogeyman / is my blood?
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Making Myths: An Interview with Charlotte Mui
“Mythology is a veil I use to cloud my modes of expression in.”
Read moreTwo Poems by Tse Hao Guang
when I grow up I will be God / of Cooking, grow / up will be Saint of Gambling / be Tricks Expert, tough
Read moreBopomofo Practice: Two Translations
By Lin Yi / Translation by May Huang
ㄅ is but, ㄅ falls lightly / you say but no, but you can’t read / but ㄅㄆ is bravely practicing / bravely practicing words that look like snakes
Read moreHong Kong Science
By Elizabeth Hay
Science gives some of us clear and logical explanations for phenomena that superficially appear to be chaotic. We calmly list the molecules and products, and balance equations; “energy” is not scary if we can predict and measure it.
Read moreApologia of the Besieged City
By Nicholas Wong
Some people love like they believe the romantic / folklore about the moon, but they love too literally / from inside a spacesuit.
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