Spring 2023 Magazine — Disaster

Half-heartedness

Half-heartedness sometimes i feel like my life is going nowhere though i want to live fully satisfied  i do not know how to go on properly  it becomes a circle,  a circle of the tornado  that will tear the future apart https://thestrand.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Animated-gif-of-Kelseys-photoshoot-2.mp4 unknowinglyliving by halveswill destroy you. Model: Raquel Lewin Words by Kelsey Ngan Phung

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Illustration depicting Mahsa Amini protests

There’s a Baby Within the Beast

There’s a Baby Within the Beast words by Kalliopé Anvar McCallillustration by Chelsea Wang          For the children of Iran. I wrote this poem after I saw a baby in a demonstration in Toronto while protesting the murder of Jîna Mahsa Aminî . The protest was very difficult emotionally; everyone was crying, screaming, grieving in

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