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mirrors
I looked over to the walls of the room Nothing, nothing but mirrors. Mirrors reflecting me from every angle. My best, my worst, every...
identity
white marks mask my nine-year-old skin from the itch that lingers after wearing my sa-bai lingers. golden earrings, ruby flower pins --...
undying
when i call upon the mischief that undulated beneath this undying land, under air sheathed with a foul taste of the flosses of flying,...
return home
cicada sounds beneath mellow sunlight, aubade from the east, where the sun rises. dances in black velvet clothing and sphere silver...
ancestral riverbank
entangled with the riverbank, I lay as my eyes watch the clear liquor flow. my body aches movement, but -- the water creates a blockade...
Set the Trapped Bird Free
the beauty of the tides match those of your eyes, before they were imbued with a shade of surrender, that I couldn’t recognize. the one...
Graves Dug by Injustice
these are the stories of the city - the stories the soil absorbed. the stories buried in the courtroom - with the culprit absolved. these...
Normalized into Nothingness
The stigmas we put on ourselves, the one my family tree placed on me. The kinds that were taught generation to generation. Kept on the...
Oversimplified
sadness always caresses her face. darkness always finds her eyes. she doesn’t understand why no one understands her. yet continue trying...
Survivors in a Sexist Society
helpless. It became a regular routine to feel helpless, to be wandering around nowhere looking for nothing all the while dreaming of...
The Synthesis of Silence and Glorified Stories
I stand on land that was threatened and shared. I stand on grass that grows taller than my knees. I stand on porous concrete, saturated...
This is Home
Written by Pinmada (Mye) Makornwattana, published on the Thai Enquirer
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