when girls like us asked them to leave. Praise the lovers who never returned. You helped us no longer be afraid of ghosts. For girls like us, the wound never fully heals. The gentle rhythm of its ...

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Drunk (2023) Wang Mun Kiat is a Singaporean-Chinese poet, whose simple poems in his second collection Short Tongue (2023 ... captures an artist’s lust for life. Translated from Chinese by ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

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To me, colour is life. Matrix (2010) harmonises with nature at the Teshima Art Museum Photo: Ken’icyhi Suzuki You often compose poems that accompany your works. One poem for the current ...