The Tiger Moth Review

ISSUE 15 is live! Read our e-issue here: thetigermothreview.com Issue 15 opens with Clarence Eng's poem "A Promise to Protect What Cannot Speak": thetigermothreview.com/blog/rea-promi… Cover image: Spirit History © Natalie Foo Mei-Yi (Singapore) #thetigermothreview #ecopoetry #ecolit

@xoakumbu's poem invokes African beliefs like Mami Wata (Queen of the Coast). It roils like the sea's discontent with mankind's intrusions, yet teems with nautical imagery that froths in the readers' minds 🌊🌊 ​ Read 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖: thetigermothreview.com/blog/daughters…

"Now a thousand children/are fleeing through my veins...If only Humanity/were by my side,/we could climb, step by step,/toward being a mountain." Read 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙖𝙧 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙢: thetigermothreview.com/blog/two-poems… #thetigermothreview #tmrissue15 #ecojournal #war

𝗠𝗟 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗱𝗼𝗺's eco-fiction explores the tenuous relationship between environmental truth and manufactured romanticism that is rampant in tourism. ​ Read 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙨: thetigermothreview.com/blog/broken-sp… ​#tmrissue15 #ecojournal #ecofiction #ecotourism

To grow is to scour, to purify, to hurt and to scar. The trunk of a papaya tree illuminates this truth of life in @3333sambhuram's poem: "scars on the lower trunk/where fruits and leaves once were." ​ Read 𝙋𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙮𝙖: thetigermothreview.com/blog/papaya ​ #ecojournal #ecopoetry #papaya

We love 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗮 𝗢𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿's emotive piece about how the presence of plants bring solace, comfort, and a quiet dignity to aging. ​ Read 𝙈𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙩-𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙮: thetigermothreview.com/blog/my-father… ​ #tmrissue15 #ecojournal #ecopoetry #flora #ecofeminism

In 𝙐𝙣-𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙙, 𝗟.𝗬. 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗻 urges compassion for urban birds: "we... impose on them/our best-practiced magic trick: vanishment...all just to save us the crushing, excruciating/cost of an inconvenient carwash." thetigermothreview.com/blog/un-bird #tmrissue15 #ecopoetry #urbanbirds

Echoing the Iban people's reverence for the rhinoceros hornbill, @vinita65 effuses "What is love but to see and not hold" her subject's "sun blade-beak/piano-keys wingspan". Read 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙡: thetigermothreview.com/blog/love-poem… ​ #tmrissue15 #hornbill

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗶-𝗬𝗶's body of work carries a feminine, chthonic, spirit that is one-of-a-kind, and we are delighted for the artwork to grace the cover of Issue 15. ​ Read 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮's prose poem: thetigermothreview.com/blog/spirit-hi… ​ #ecofeminism

Filmmaker 𝗔𝗿𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗳 examines interconnectedness in the digital age "The microbes still believe/in symbiotic forms beyond the byte." ​ Read 𝙈𝙮𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢: thetigermothreview.com/blog/mycelium-… ​ #tigermothreview #web

Tending to nature binds the giver and the receiver in a sacred act; one that transcends loss and blithe landscaping. ​ Read 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙪𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚, 𝙞𝙩 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣: thetigermothreview.com/blog/when-you-… ​ #thetigermothreview #tmrissue15 #ecojournal #urbanspaces

𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸-𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀𝗼𝗻 fills our senses with the pastoral scenes of meadows and cornfields. Inviting and nurturing, "I dream of rooting/myself in this fertile ground". ​ Read 𝙋𝙚𝙠𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙁𝙖𝙧𝙢: thetigermothreview.com/blog/pekin-mil… ​ #tmrissue15 #ecojournal

The shore along Changi Beach is a "threshold between worlds", a fragile and beautiful ecosystem that ripples and sways to its own rhythm but is threatened by land reclamation: Read 𝘼 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠: thetigermothreview.com/blog/a-promise…

𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗞𝗼𝗵's 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 carries the same spirit of @JoyHarjo's exploration of interconnectedness and profound relationship to the universe. ​ Read 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧: thetigermothreview.com/blog/remember ​ #thetigermothreview #tmrissue14 #ecojournal #interconnectedness

When an adolescent tribeswoman meets a biologist, will conflict or salvation arise from the intersections of their beliefs? ​ Read 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙒𝙚 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 by 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 here: thetigermothreview.com/blog/the-skins… #ecofiction #tmrissue14 #thetigermothreview #indigenous

𝙋𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 examines light, urban spaces and environmental changes in the form of an exhibition, a performance and public workshops. ​ Find out more: thetigermothreview.com/blog/phenomeno… ​ #ecojournal #multimedia

"I am made of river water and dirt." ​ "I am the whisper of sagebrush carried on winds that never rest" ​ Each verse of 𝗘𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀' poetry embodies @thichnhathanh philosophical concept of Interbeing. ​ Read 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙣: thetigermothreview.com/blog/wind-woven ​ #Interbeing

Observe and embrace daybreak's sanctity with 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿's poem: "Here, the world asks nothing of you/but to listen—" ​ Read 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 here: thetigermothreview.com/blog/between-l… ​ #ecolit #ecopoetry #stillness #mindfulness

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗻's personal essay is a tender portrait of a chipping sparrow fledgling that she encounters and protects: "it wasn't me he trusted—it was a deep trust in life itself" ​ Read 𝘼 𝙁𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜'𝙨 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙚: thetigermothreview.com/blog/a-fledgli… ​ #fledgling

𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻's poem draws on his practice in somatic healing, which focuses on the body's role in processing emotions: "I have to train the breathing/for the new paradigm." ​ Read 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙒𝙖𝙫𝙚: thetigermothreview.com/blog/heatwave ​ #somatichealing #ecojournal #ecolit