Poem: Pull The Tower
A magnet poem, September 2024
Poem Garden
There's never a wrong time for a poem. Some I made and some I share with you from others.
Poem: Zoonotic Spillover
A Malaysian pandemic poem by Liy Yusof, after Andreas Malm. Translated into Bahasa Melayu by Jack Malik.
Poem: "I desired to be known"
Poem: I need a new way
by Liy Yusof. "oh orenda, show me my coordinates / oh sophrosyne, the mysteries of my blood"
Poem: Things My Grandmother Doesn't Understand
by Liy Yusof. "her hands quiver as she floats through the rooms of her mind / and switches the lights on and off again"
January danced to the poem I wrote her
"Her every step on the ground is not / always a step forward, but rather / a kiss from ancient Odisha"
Poem: "If my heart was a home on the beach"
by Liy. Spontaneous poem no.8 from their late grandfather's typewriter.
Poem: To My Unborn Descendants
by Liy Yusof. "One day, I too will be in your blood / My concrete, my playlists, the air and disaster / health of my whorehouse heart"
Poem: How To Be The Web
by Liy Yusof. "There was a song you used to sing; but it hums only / for itself now."
Poem: Spine
At 23, I wrote a romantic poem about back pain.
Poem: Wildcats
Poem: One
by Liy. "one: pot of gold, poisoned apple, beanstalk. an unread message."