115 - Another sauntering session with a companion existing somewhere between the real and the imagined. How much depth is compromised in a cubicle minus any view of the outside?

// Was I in search of something, tools maybe, or seeds, for many odd things are stowed under the overthinking // -Mary Ruefle

// Were my voice made incorruptible, resistant to air, bad acoustics, cynicism, and doubt, you'd recognize the four corners of my reasoning -- through the bluest of windows // -Marco Yan

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Curated and presented by Atom Alicia

114 - Still adjusting to my acoustic environment. A set of five interconnected poems where the speaker interacts with a friend who lives somewhere between the real and the imagined. Background noise courtesy of the cleaning lady.

// because he has taken another he too personally, privately - the myth of love bisects these he's, who wet their love for myths with well-meant selves // -Nicholas Wong

// 當他們感覺到夜晚，便總是懷疑自己無甚光芒。其實他們都很美，本來不需要那樣特意堅忍，特意成熟 // -曹疏影

Listen on ⁠⁠Mixcloud⁠⁠ to catch the hidden tracks and featured poems

Playlist is on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart airs weekly on CFMS 105.9 FM

Curated and presented by Atom Alicia

113 - Settling in back home. Revising stuff written during the trip. Every day I'm reminded someone's birthday is coming, unless I don't leave the house.

// Stellar the man takes the cowries, blasts the ballerinas the inflatable husbands where the radish clowns unfurl across a velvet stage // -Nicolette Wong

// 他們都一致認為 / 當他們聚在一起 / 就比我的五官 / 更接近我的面貌 // -杜家祁

Listen on ⁠Mixcloud⁠ to catch the hidden tracks and featured poems

Playlist is on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart airs weekly on CFMS 105.9 FM

Curated and presented by Atom Alicia

112 - Back to my Causeway Bay studio on the island side of Hong Kong for the first time in six months. I find myself once again living in the smallest home I've ever lived while polishing pieces written during my extended vacation. That doesn't mean I'm not on vacation anymore. No features today. Just my own stuff

Tune in via Mixcloud to catch the hidden tracks

Playlist is on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart airs weekly on CFMS 105.9 FM

Curated and presented by Atom Alicia

111 - SPECIAL EDITION recorded at STS Studio in Fukuoka, Japan. One person. One month. One city. A poetry collection approaching 60 pieces. Here I share some of my early drafts plus a bit of poetry discovered on the journey. I return to Hong Kong in April

// 弱さを隠すその嘘で、あなたがあなたを奮い立たせられるなら、私はいつまでも、目をつぶっていよう。力強いその声が私を呼び覺ますこと知っている // -Yui Shiroma

// There is a truth in that smooth indifference, a clean honesty about our otherness that feels not like the moral, but the story // -Ada Limon

Link to exhibition by Anton Hersche

Technical production of this episode is by Ryota Takeya @ ⁠STS

Hidden tracks can be heard if you tune in via my Mixcloud channel ⁠www.mixcloud.com/atomicheart⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

For more on my aspirations in radio and poetry, please visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart is curated and presented by Atom Alicia.

110 - My last recording at Mei Ho House till who knows when. I bring you the 100th and final piece from my hundred consecutive days of prose poetry writing. I also read 'If you happen to be swimming in the same ocean', which appears in my full-length manuscript Forty-One Frames. The poem muses on the architectural rhythm of MHH juxtaposed with a tune I used to love and still love. And it's only fitting that the sentiment is capped by a reading of Cavafy's 'Ithaka'.

All this, before I depart for a month-long writing retreat in Fukuoka, Japan. The show will resume after I return to Hong Kong in April.

This edition is only available as a podcast.

For more on my aspirations in radio and poetry, please visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart is curated and presented by Atom Alicia.

109 - We're into the final home stretch. This is the last radio installment recorded at my studio in Mei Ho House. I'll do a final episode here next week. That'll be uploaded exclusively to the podcast channels prior to graduation day. As usual, I bring you a sparkling line-up of featured poets, here are today's...

// I thought of facing a fallen tree: its robust aerial roots, my hair loosening from a bun, the jellyfish on my back formed an orgy of symmetries // -Tim Tim Cheng

// 別人說這是晴天 / 人世間的荒誕便像圖釘般 / 鋪灑在你家門前了 // -池荒懸

For the full version of the show aired on CFMS 105.9 FM, go to: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.mixcloud.com/atomicheart⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Playlist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart is curated and presented by Atom Alicia.

108 - On a day after I found clarity on the ceiling, I give you an account of a stranger's memories, how distant rooftops are composed, and shoelaces that tighten just enough without impeding the wanderlust. Today's featured poets are as follows~

// Each day brings more bad weather, which is another way of saying I'm in my sixties // -George Bilgere

// 然後帶著它流浪城市每個邊緣的起點 / 走一個圈子兩個方框無數的多邊形 / 放在長椅上擱在圓池旁或無形的荒境 // -洛楓

For the full version of the show aired on CFMS 105.9 FM, go to: ⁠⁠⁠www.mixcloud.com/atomicheart⁠⁠⁠⁠

Playlist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠⁠

Atomic Heart is curated and presented by Atom Alicia.

107 - We are slowly recovering from the festivities of the new lunar year where snakes have been characterized in all sorts of lovable manners. Despite exhaustion we continue to show up even late at night. Today's featured poets are as follows~

// I begin to make of my life a meditation, the life I tried to rid myself of for so long -- even as a fly on the windowsill scrubs its face with brisk motions and down the hall a door... // -Evelyn Lau

// 日子持續，我們循規蹈矩 / 年之將盡，我們充滿盼待 / 且不誠實地許願 -- / 日子規矩地重來 // -鄭詠詩

For the full version of the show aired on CFMS 105.9 FM, go to: ⁠⁠www.mixcloud.com/atomicheart⁠⁠⁠

Playlist: ⁠⁠⁠www.atomicheart.fm⁠⁠

Atomic Heart is curated and presented by Atom Alicia.

106 - Atom reads Rilke again, exactly five years on.

Five years ago, I moved into this building with aspirations of writing a book like this. Today, the book is finished.

// There is no measuring with time, not even a year matters, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: to neither reckon nor count; to ripen like the tree, which does not rush its sap, and stands firm in the storms of spring, without anxiety that summer may not come after. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there, as if eternity lay before them, so carelessly silent and vast. I learn it daily, learn it with pain, am grateful for it: Patience is all! // - Rainer Maria Rilke

PHOTO: backside of Mei Ho House. Room 524 was where this project started. Its balcony is shown on the upper left.

Atomic Heart is curated and presented by Atom Alicia.

For more on my aspirations for radio and poetry, please visit www.atomicheart.fm

Beds: ‘Summer’ by Cookies for My Dog, ‘Loving You’ by LASYA, ‘Stars’ by Stefano Mastronardi, ‘The Journey Home’ by Yoav Ilan