It’s the last step before leaving my house, the last act required to start the day. I find the right playlist on my phone and click play.

The One That Loves You

I don’t want to leave the busy sun, all the people who see me and still love me, everything in my life that has ever made sound.

As a voice that is there but is not heard—because while all songs have a voice, not all of them require a human manifestation of such.

Light & light & light to you. We hope this book is exactly what you need right now—that would be the greatest honour imaginable.

For years, I wanted to diverge from my heritage, because to do anything else would be to assume the debt of being loved.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestFebruary 7, 2019

Many of the truths within this book are about the impossible debt of love and the tremendous gift of lineage.

Featuring Hyejung Kook’s poem “In All This Singing” and James Radcliffe’s song "Breathe".

There is a dichotomy that exists in poetry that allows both intimacy and distance.

But I’ve always been drawn to that which I cannot fully be a part of, so I continue to pretend that I am meant for this space.

January’s song: the launch of Half Mystic Journal’s Issue VI: Interlude, wild, soft, ephemeral, fierce.