Author

Allan Cho

Models of Migration

by Allan Cho

Sugar ants from sunset bring bad luck reflected in aged mirrors; troubles echoed in hoarse bells inside whitewashed temple domes; debts that inhabit the marrow of history; hunger that live …

Don’t Leave Us Here

by Allan Cho

As living parents, more time is all we want, while in death, time is all we have. We spoke to Cynthia a week before the accident took us. She called …

Meryenda

by Allan Cho

      1. (n.) the ancestral home you’ve never seen before In the public square, there is a stage lined with Christmas lights. Tinny music blasts from a loudspeaker, …

To Make a Painting

by Allan Cho

The artist reads a book. The book provides an idea. The idea, entrapment, leads to a framework, a framework of thinking. Are we trapped in our own bodies, which we …

A Requiem for Ada Con

by Allan Cho

a d a . A d a . A D A in the flash of your too brief shining ……….we hardly knew you having rarely stepped out into spotlight ……….you …

/daenamu/

by Allan Cho

Fiery tongues lick the sky, cackling and crackling, In a forest of burning towers, only they – the daenamu – stand. Each fibre stretches toward air, weaving a lattice of …

Late Night Period Cramps

by Allan Cho

The painkiller, dissolved in my stomach at 3:26 am, is not working. I am nothing but a dark vagina and a stormy uterus. I imagine – with sober hands, care, …