Half-light,
Sky stained violet-pink
ball of flame
explosion rolling
into the ocean.
Pink sinking runny
into burnt orange
as melted crayon,
as leaky glow stick,
setting the sea alight.
Look up: home
Constellations
like a map
to the heavens.
The stars
nothing more
than curious angels
beaming down on us
Clouds
a giant shroud
of breath
of vapour
of risen water
embracing the Earth,
like hope,
like God-language,
like perfect balance.
Like a promise
that, once broken,
would make all corners
of the earth tremble
under our feet.
Slyvia Kin was a teacher in Indonesia and Malaysia, before she landed her current job as a librarian in a primary school. She loves cooking, reading, writing, and music. She has written poems since she was in Secondary school, and would often convert her poems into songs as a way of expressing her feelings. Slyvia started a band with her son called Musically.Poetry, where they combine poems with music, and she plays guitar while her son plays the Ukulele. Some of her poems are set to be included in the anthology
Translating Migrating, and she dreams of publishing her own poetry book one day.
Stephanie Dogfoot is the author of Roadkill for Beginners, a poetry collection published by Math Paper Press. She has won poetry slams in Singapore and the UK and represented these countries in international slams, including the Indian Ocean Slam and the Poetry World Cup. Currently, she produces a monthly poetry night called Spoke & Bird and a stand-up comedy night called Siao Char Bors Comedy. She has feature at the George Town Literary Festival, the Melbourne Spoken Word Festival and Glastonbury Festival among many others, and has toured Australia, Germany and North America with her work. She writes in English and knows enough Mandarin to have a brief conversation about the weather while ordering food on a hot day. She does not have much experience with translation, except for once trying to translate a Chinese poem about a goose into English, with disturbing results.
