i miss you when you’re in another room
DANNY SILVA SOBERANO
i would just like for the opportunity
to become tired of your open face
Kota Batu
EUNICE ANDRADA
The weavers fly to Hong Kong.
The last binukot dies.
Self Colonialism - Conversation with Gods
LUOYANG CHEN
When did it all start,
The conversation with gods?
Sirens
SHENALI PERERA
There was a time when
The sirens were familiar
I too can write Sahab, but who will bail me out?
JITENDRA MERAVI
I too can write, Sahab
But who will soothe my wounds?
Two poems
DALEY RANGI
our tūpuna said
language is a window to the soul
Boiling water does not reflect your face
USHA KIRAN ATRAM
We will build
A new home for ourselves
Disconnection
GABRIELA GEORGES
The environment, a mirror
of who and what we are.
Sea, Pilgrim
MANISHA ANJALI
Speaking in Coda
SIDDHARTH DASGUPTA
Some dreams come to me in Bangla.
I don’t know Bangla. It doesn’t seem
Qi Xi: A Sequence - Ghazal for my Grandmother
EILEEN CHONG
She ties the end of the thread in a double knot.
Learning to read
MAR BUCKNELL
where i am is secret
find my bones in trees
Forgiveness at Tegenungan Waterfall
JOSE LUIS ‘NICO’ PABLO
I took my place behind my lover.
He said nothing, only drove
Waiting for Jonathan
LUCY DOUGAN
Track or lose it, never mind,
we run on, carry on.
Jarwa Women
USHA KIRAN ATRAM
Translated by SHATALI SHEDMAKE
Why do you forget
They are also humans
