December 2022 – Issue 5
FOUNDING EDITOR :
Malachi Edwin Vethamani
JOINT EDITOR :
Danton Remoto
COPY EDITOR :
Augustine Chay
WEB EDITOR :
Kayven Chew Kian Tatt
Cover photograph by Izuddin Helmi Adnan
MMOJ is published by Ardent and Paramount Enterprise
e-ISSN : 2773-5613
– EDITORIAL –
– POETRY –
Anitha Devi Pillai,
Unspoken, Last Kiss and Fear
Isaac Tan,
Struck
Matthew Jerome van Huizen,
Peace on Earth and Mercy Mild,
His Fingers,
and
The Lonely Life of an Associate Lawyer
LKN,
E-Level
Alexander Perez,
for James
and
irreparable
Khayma Balakrishnan,
Brahmachari
Loshni Nair,
Questions for the great-grandfather I never met
Scott T. Hutchison,
Sissy-Boom-Bah
– NOVEL –
William Tham,
Excerpt from ‘Kings of Chinatown’
– FICTION –
Tim Tomlinson,
Swim Lesson
Rob Davidson,
Packing Out
Demetri Kissel,
You’ll Never Get Published
Isaac Tan,
Vincent
Lori D’Angelo,
Men’s Work
Omer Berkman,
It Went Like This
Farouk Gulsara,
Samar
– CREATIVE NONFICTION –
Brian Huba,
“Time for Justin Timberlake to say ‘Bye Bye Bye'” – A Personal Essay
William Halm,
Cars Standing Still
Andy Kossowsky,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
– BOOK REVIEW –
Enakshi Samarawickrama,
Review of
‘Kings of Chinatown’ (2022) :
A Story About Gangsters, Generational Trauma and Tense Father-Son Relationships
– A SPECIAL FEATURE ON OMAR MOHD. NOOR –
Augustine Chay,
“a stranger in a known realm”:
A Reintroduction to Omar Mohd. Noor’s Pioneering, Self-Searching Poetry
Part I: Published Poems
an advertisement
three layers
the mosque
e.e. cummings talked to me from his grave
malaysian sun misbehaves
despair by radioside
too dry: the long drought in early 1968
poem-30
final
heads
rain
the interview
moon-hiding tree
freewalking
rain, broken light and music
my clever pupils
shut
not even a word
a window curtain
the male gossiper
a quarrel between day and night
i am only this
Part II: Unpublished Poems
the psychopath
thoughts before suicide
confusion
where are we going?
a flight into poetry? listening to jazz
an american marine talked to me in his death
mending a childhood
search for a refuge
ostentational
a town is not a home