The Sea Remembers
Poem by Kim Cheng Boey
Just when you turn your back on it and give it up for lost, it starts to come back, tides sweeping in from the lost horizon, or maybe it is rising in you, the sea returning with its waves of remembering, its lilting cadences and lapping folds on the mossy, weedy sea-wall, the hum, the chugging of sampans and tongkangs, the stirring sea breeze and bracing salt air….
Le Morne Beach
by Esther Vincent
taking its time to know each crevice
Unseen
by John Mateer
she never did see the ghost of the Dutch soldier
Grief in Realtime
by Kirli Saunders
we wait for the artist or the child to
curfew & mother: a life in four acts
by Ko Ko Thett
street dogs die
Fading Horizon
by Jerome Masamaka
to ferry us home
summer lines
by Josephine Clarke
there’s a hush on the roads
The Ultimate Page
by Afeif Ismail and co-transcreated with Vivienne Glance
from the book of history and revolution
Cocos (Keeling Island)
by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
quick fingers, memory of muscle
Penguin Island
by Nadia Rhook
north in the direction of the airport
Albany
Poems by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
at the end of the world
water threading down throat will be your manna
sun unseasonal, sky triumphant