do you remember? | Tea Solon

how the beating heart of the earth
sounded like when we lay there on
the grass sharing our futures?


TEA SOLON enjoys gulping butung any given day. In her capacity as professor, researcher, and administrator, she had served the academe for nearly two decades. A boring mom and annoying mamarazzi, her bragging rights include basil grower, cancer warrior, and Kabisdak contributor. Read more of Tea at Butung is Layp.

Selected by the editor as a featured submission, March 2023

i want your kisses to be mine…only mine | Tea Solon

all your kisses
belong to me,
and mine yours

the darkness
even closes its
eyes to ensure
no one else takes

our kisses away
but us… only us.


TEA SOLON enjoys gulping butung any given day. In her capacity as professor, researcher, and administrator, she had served the academe for nearly two decades. A boring mom and annoying mamarazzi, her bragging rights include basil grower, cancer warrior, and Kabisdak contributor. Read more of Tea at Butung is Layp.

LUCIEN | Tea Solon

unsullied ardent river
flowing through the veins of souls


TEA SOLON enjoys gulping butung any given day. In her capacity as professor, researcher, and administrator, she had served the academe for nearly two decades. A boring mom and annoying mamarazzi, her bragging rights include basil grower, cancer warrior, and Kabisdak contributor. Read more of Tea at Butung is Layp.