LISABELLE TAY
Lisabelle Tay is a Singaporean writer and poet. Her poetry appears in Anthropocene, Bad Lilies, and elsewhere; her debut pamphlet was Pilgrim (The Emma Press, 2021). Her fiction appears in Sine Theta Magazine and elsewhere. She was part of the 2023 Black List Feature Lab with her screenplay MOMO, which is currently in development.
The soul spilled murmurous from her as an insect cloud. Once they believed in birthing bees from ox carcasses. The life of the bull passed into that of the bees, sudden and unquestioned. Where have you gone? Into whom has your life passed?
Devotion is desire given shape, out of which substance is formed and grown — the substance of what is unseen but no less real. Devotion is desire sustained, which is to me a very precious thing.
November 18, 2024
