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“In her sweetness where she folds my wounds there is a flower that bees cannot afford. It is too rich for them and would change their wings into operas and all their honey into the lonesome maps of a nonexistent California county. When she has finished folding all my wounds she puts them away in a dresser where the drawers smell like the ghost of a bicycle. Afterwards I rage at her: demanding that her affections always be constant to my questions.”

Richard Brautigan, “In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds,” Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (Delacorte Press, 1979) 

I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it is okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.

— Callista Buchen, from “Taking Care,” published in Thrush

“我住長江頭， 君住長江尾； 日日思君不見君， 共飲長江水。 此水幾時休？ 此恨何時已？ 只願君心似我心， 定不負相思意。 I live upstream and you downstream, From night to night of you I dream. Unlike the stream you are not in view, Though both we drink from River Blue. When will the river no more flow？ When will my grief no more grow？ I wish your heart will be like mine， Then not in vain for you I pine.”

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Song of Divination (卜算子) by Li Zhiyi (李之儀). Song Dynasty.

Born in Wudi County, Shandong, Li Zhiyi was a Song Dynasty Chinese poet and one of Su Shi’s disciples. Song of Divination plays on the theme of lovesickness between men and women. Using the Yangtze River as a metaphor for both distance and unity, the narrator expresses an intense yearning for their lover.

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“Place a hand against that solemn curtain of darkness as if touching would draw it open, would finally reveal another place, another life, another way of looking at one’s self, perhaps a painter at work, who knows the end never becomes what one had envisioned.”

— Greg Sellers, from “Pentimento,” work-in-progress (20 June 2017)

SUBMIT TO SINE THETA MAGAZINE - ISSUE #12 “THUNDER 雷”!

Do you feel an aching little rumble, a little rage and a little fury in the pit of your stomach to create something big? We are now accepting your visual and written works until JULY 1ST. Strike us with your best work! “Thunder 雷” will drop in August.

We welcome submissions from a wide range of media, including installations, digital art, cinematography, comics, etc. Please send your works to [email protected]. Submission guidelines can be found here.

Suggested visual and written thematic prompts are available on our website and Pinterest board. 

Don’t forget about our first writing competition judged by Sharlene Teo and Nancy Huang! Submit your entry engaging with one or more of our prompts by July 15 for a chance to be published in this issue! 

Sine Theta Magazine is an international print-based creative arts magazine made by and for the Sino diaspora. We publish quarterly print editions showcasing art and writing by Sino creators from around the globe. If you are of Sino (Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Macau) heritage, please consider submitting! If not, tell a friend who is! Sine Theta Magazine is a globally-accessible English language publication.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! We will be happy to get back to you! 

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Forough Farrokhzad, from an interview featured in “Another Birth: Selected Poems,”