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...

At the Station

for saraswita laksmi By Komang Ira Puspitaningsih In the falling rain, the station is covered by fog. Fifteen minutes have passed since your scheduled arrival A handful of memories I await, in your suitcase and knapsack   Is this rain able to shoulder again the...