Milton Wong: “Heat Injury En Route to the Bus Stop”
I’d been anticipating heat death but not like this.
Kinjal Johri: “A Love Like an Excavation”
We talk of George Harrison and Thai Horror / and the way desire hollows a body out, turns the soul into a sinkhole / hungry for a love like an excavation.
Muhammad bin Zailan: “Silent Fissures”
Sometimes, when I lie beside you, your breath rattles like wind straining / against a warped door.
Eneida P. Alcalde: “Urqupiña, 2002”
Here I am / hungry to bite, // hungry to fight.
Czander Tan: “Manila Skyline”
I wonder if dance could ever be an objective criteria or a family tree
Choo En Ting: “The Revenant”
at the end, the comma / is carrying a coffin
noonherd: “xmm v sweat”
your worksheet got pilot g6 smudge my fault ah everyday / i live like this one
Nnadi Samuel: “Pixelated Bodies”
imagine you are the last thing / to draw breath in a lodge once peopled with laughter.
Chrystal Ho: “At the Hamadryas Baboon Exhibit ”
Isn’t it beautiful, how the world lives and heaves?
Naoumi Lugtu: “81” Square Arm Sofa”
Here’s a synthetic proposition: not everyone who is married is in love.
Belle Koh Han Lyn: “Some Kind of Crossing ”
In the street where I walked with my parents before I became myself, I see her porous figure clearly.
Zhao Yushan: “Kissing Game”
secretary licking NDA / NDA licking whispers / whispers licking moustache
Anurak Saelaow: “Cosmic Permutation”
i’ve walked backwards nightly through these walls.
Qamar Firdaus Saini: “Pale Lights (This Will Destroy You Remix)”
how many poems can you give a heart before it takes?
Valen Lim: “Zuihitsu”
My head, a barbed-wire bed. My head, a minefield ballet.
Cheng Him: “Froggy Froggy Jump Like Hell”
you got ask fish if they know what is wet?
Kimberley Chia: “Requiem for Leaving”
When I say I cannot love you it is not an invitation.
Pamela Seong Koon: “Strobes”
tonight i will sleep with everything i have.
Daryl Lim Wei Jie: “Sexpose”
Clones are acceptable to me if they r friendly and courteous
Natalie Wang: “Miss You. Would Love to Take You for Butter Chicken Again.”
do not care if you are here with lungs or without. we are beyond such heavy things now.