1 is me
/ but, 1 is you
/ thus 1 + 1 by no means equals 2…
Category: Issue 12 – Heart Break
The Heart Break Issue
What Do You Want?
It was the way he moved, as if there was a faint rap song playing but only he could hear it. Or maybe it was the way his feet shuffled to the slow rhythm of the summer breeze, as if he had fully mastered the art of walking, really walking…
blue jeans
wouldn’t it be funny
/ if our hearts were all denim
/ still prone to rip…
It’s a Good Time to Be Lonely
I’m holding his red sweater, stolen. The monster he bought for me at Comicon. The colourful string of lights he got for my dorm. It’s undeniable, even after a year and a half of being single, I’m still lonely …
I’m yelling goodbye to my Mother
And I think it’s hard to hear above the din; / The files sch-sch-sch / Across our fingernails …
Pickled Pork Tongues
I was in an Uber heading home, after lunch with fifteen distant relatives from my mom’s side. My dad called to say that my grandparents were waiting at the door, and had no key. I was surprised at first because I had not seen them for too long …
A Hammock and Me and Time
a hammock and me and a couple of years: / a time when I could fall / an become …
Waiting for Ever
Marvellous question. Are you? Am I? Where is this place we keep finding ourselves in? Is there a way out of it, I wonder …
Dismantling Detroit: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
I’ll admit that I was at first dazzled by the strange combination of ethereal bangles and beads and the NeonEjaculate artistic flair of curb-stomping stubbornness that is the lead, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), in the film Sorry to Bother You…
The Seventh Art, a Song to Cinema
Seven-thirty in the evening, and lights / fade away, while curtains open in front / of me from center …