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Innas Tsuroiya

Here comes Billy MacKenzie with
the vengeance in minor key, an expanse
of woeful scenery, the marriage of strings & speeches.
The pain in any language, he sounds out his pleading,
is the same in any language. Even if
the nature of animals is hardly alike.
In whichever flatland a wolf at birth may remain a wolf
unless if ram-clothed later; unless when the fur sheds
or it gets maimed—simple economics.
What he sings to the unknown, either could be
a currency of the kingdom. Perhaps the extent of song meaning
is that things like these are too human, too common.
What about their different epistemologies.
A medic can pinpoint the locus of the first strain & not more
but an elegist will absolve them altogether:
say, a garden variety disappointment may gain another
aesthetic height in one’s acquired tongue(s).

Innas Tsuroiya is a writer living in Indonesia who works across poetry, criticism, translation, fiction, and divination. Her work can be found in C Magazine, Protean Magazine, ArtReview Asia, Artforum, among others.