Post-Wedding Hotel

By Dina Oktaviani after so many secretive and anxious years those two friends make love in the end at a time, when bodies are no longer as when as they first wanted them at a time, when life has become more assured and imprisoning at a time, when hearts have become...

Inner Landscape

By Dina Oktaviani i try to write something and pray for you so that you can forgive me from afar   in my head was a pile of songs which will tie myself up to your shadows   i look at the landscape through the window calling for your breath which i have known...

Folded Letters

By Dina Oktaviani 1 this season there was a time when i was obsessed to throw a letter through your bedroom window. i wouldn’t know if anyone was spread-eagled by your side : ready to devour every message and threat. my body has always hoped you would go out, go to...

Ghosts of Tanjungkarang

By Dina Oktaviani   1 what is it now that makes you tremble night is just something that often passes by what is it that you don’t know about pain; spiteful lovers, friends that vanish in space   you’re the one who never finishes anything because everything...

Broken Heart Walking

By Dina Oktaviani   this is just a short story about all the things that did not happen when i walked back into the burnt down room   the stretching bed in a strange gaze the four flesh of seasons that grew in my lips and his   there was no longer...