My tears fall in the most unlikely of places. I could be sitting on the bus. Or eating a cheese sandwich. Or playing in the park with my nieces. Tears arrive and swell in the corner of my eyes at the sight of the simplest of scenes. It might be a child eating lunch with their…
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Vol 1, Issue 9: Malay Nights
This week we step out of Japan and into Malaysia. As Tokyo Story comes to an end, so begins Malay Nights. The poems this week are from a long time ago. Looking through them and their stained, worn pages was like visiting another life, and yet the ongoing cycles of loss and repair are still…
Vol 2, Issue 1: How things come to pass
Change is an inevitable force in our lives, one that shapes and gives life to our existence, but one that becomes a great source of fear. Recently, I’ve come to think of change, not as something that takes away that that already belongs to us, but that which gives back. Change gives back the part…