Ketika api kuyup oleh lautan
Lembaran terbuka
Dan langit yang ditinggikan
Memanggang laut
Rumah yang tersambung ke langit
Wahai malaikat..
Kunjungi aku
Kabut mengangkasa
Bertembung tak biasa
beribu tahun
Tak lenguh
Sampaikan asa
Dia bicara padamu
Keseimbangan muktamad
Ketika tatanannya rosak
Dan penjuru-penjuru goncang
Akan berada dimanakah kita?
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.