Rabbit Heart is a collection of poems and prose written as one long letter - to a self the writer hasn't yet become, to the loves who passed through, to the mother who waits and to the reader who is somehow also you.
Across a full tide of feeling - ebbing back toward childhood, drifting between languages and lands, surging into love and pulled under by its undertow, then slowly surfacing toward home. Rabbit Heart traces what it means to stay tender in a world that asks you to harden. It is a book about going under and coming up. About home: the one you leave, the one you become, the one you carry across tongues.
Written in English, Bahasa Melayu, and Mandarin, Rabbit Heart moves through displacement and belonging, the grief of lost languages, the loves that almost were, and the long, uneven work of returning to yourself. It is a debut collection for those who feel everything - and keep going anyway.
For fellow creaturekinds: those whose hearts beat fast in the dark.