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Category Archives: Poetry
hut
aku datang untuk menonton tebu orang lain tiba menjadi orang-orangan ada burung menggenggam udara dan ulat-ulat kecil di langit udara setipis kertas ada kepala-kepala berterbangan emas meleleh di dalam dada membeku menjadi punggung ada bocah menunggu dinosaurus ular melintas punggung kakinya jalan lumpur perak purnama siapa tahu besok malam ia seorang pengkhayal kawakan strip kuningContinue reading “hut”
select
three pears rot in a metal bowl. i’ve stopped washing my rice. i wish estraven had made it across the snow bog. some pages you just don’t understand. a distal phalanx gives you an entire universe. it was my fault/i forgive you. i do not forgive you. how many stars? how many ways of beingContinue reading “select”
nibi-iro
you’re in rude health a bubble protected by maiming a universe of malice milk blooms in a gutter respite is rare death undoes so many glue yourself to your screen
TKKG
too early for flowers to bloom shit hits the fan but your hand slips into mine and the heat between our skin turns liquid metal
IOU
the night is decrepit. tempus, fuck it. i needed to know, now, i know. come closer. justice for the nonce, meng? cor, blimey. quiz me on vices, orthodoxies, proprieties, o seed of love! the pier is rotting, your pretty feet, a saving grace. banish me to the realm of letters, imbibe regret with every oxfordContinue reading “IOU”
ramsay
hey, i went there again yesterday. about the same time we went there 11 years ago. same liquid yellow sun. same special fx glow on the leaves and the life of concrete around us. there is a flyover now where there was a railroad track. it was quiet there, unlike then when we visited. thisContinue reading “ramsay”
tewas 2
they’re all tevas to me. you might have a different name, but i have never remembered it. do you think a bullet can bounce off a car window? the maître d’s cheong sam looked a bit dishevelled. two days ago. she said my sentences run on to each other. some of them just don’t work.Continue reading “tewas 2”
tidak ada poetry
sebuah lorong di bawah rel kereta api yang bukan tempat tinggalku, sampah yang menghitam dari api dan sikap acuh pejalan kaki, semprotan DDT yang sebentar aku kira asap sate, tidak ada poetry. aku berjalan tegap lurus ke depan, sol sepatuku kulit, hand-made, mengetuk aspal seperti bosan, tidak ada poetry. aku berjalan menggandeng anakku perempuan, menghindariContinue reading “tidak ada poetry”
classical rhetoric for the modern student
kelelahan cuma buat menunda waktu untuk mengakui kekalahan seperti payung dibentangkan untuk melindungi punggung yang terlanjur basah sosokmu melintasi kuburan di bawah awan yang menggerayang kesedihan père lachaise yang membusuk di petamburan tidak ada lagi jalan, hanya badan badan yang ditumpuk bagai bantal di ibukota yang enggan memberikan ruang bagi gunting rumput dan air mataContinue reading “classical rhetoric for the modern student”
Divagyrations 