Be Still for Dear LifeThe sign outside the chapel will bear three iterations of your name. All of which, even the romanized versions, carry with them the home we left when the sun was setting in our boyhood.
Mei
Mei Wen is a Chinese Filipino writer who explores her relationship with herself, her family, and art through essays. Born and raised in the Philippines, she now lives in Switzerland. Mei Wen is a pseudonym.
Switzerland
Selected work (5 publications)
Touch Me Notfor, after the pod was pricked, I was wedged in banana leaves; for I shifted and spiraled in the dark as I was whisked to what I only knew was away; for, in secret, thousands of us were sailed across the sea, where the air grew too hot, too cold...
CanovaHe points the chisel on the stone and swings the mallet at it,
pounding until marble slants, curves,
resembling locks of hair
ekphrastic
Alone with a BookSix years have passed since you last read a physical book. You wouldn’t have grabbed one if you hadn’t grown sick of four black bezels enclosing much of what you looked at.