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Gurney wheels squeak. Rolling into a shiny, white room, glinting scopes and hardware, knobs, levers, and wires. Flipping on my back, IV’ed, masked up, the anesthetist turns a red faucet knob.
The girls found a floating longan tree at Kheam Hock Park. It had no roots, just a trunk that stopped a metre above the ground.
By Ryan Tan
“Hey, man,” came the voice. “You want a woman? Twenty dollars.”
Tuesday night, I'm settling down on the fold-out couch and my phone dings.
By Travis Flatt
Broken dolls bob and sink // and bob again, hair streaming // with weeds and sand.
The Rumen is a collaboration between writers, poets, and artists from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, we want The Rumen to be a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
We are especially interested in publishing contributors from historically underrepresented people groups.
It is in poetry that the idea of the genius—that unit of specific and particular capability—arrives in its fullest form.
The first thing you will notice is my sentient awareness. This is also a program.
You should expect that it will be dark outside most of the time. You may have been woken from warm woolly dreams. Branches might be whipping your window.
By Nat Kishchuk
Broken dolls bob and sink // and bob again, hair streaming // with weeds and sand.
Gurney wheels squeak. Rolling into a shiny, white room, glinting scopes and hardware, knobs, levers, and wires. Flipping on my back, IV’ed, masked up, the anesthetist turns a red faucet knob.
The girls found a floating longan tree at Kheam Hock Park. It had no roots, just a trunk that stopped a metre above the ground.
By Ryan Tan
“Hey, man,” came the voice. “You want a woman? Twenty dollars.”
Tuesday night, I'm settling down on the fold-out couch and my phone dings.
By Travis Flatt
The Rumen is a collaboration between writers, poets, and artists from a variety of demographics and backgrounds. Like the guts of an ungulate, we want The Rumen to be a space for ideas and experiences to digest, ferment, and transform.
We are especially interested in publishing contributors from historically underrepresented people groups.