the end comes on without a gasp

the end comes on without a gasp announces the arrival of a singular new voice moving between Manila and Tokyo, inheritance and departure, tenderness and ruin. In this startling debut, Trish Shishikura maps the afterlives of grief and migration with a clarity that feels both mythic and

intimately human.

Across these poems, the body becomes a fault line, the family a constellation of absences, and language a place where memory resists erasure. Fathers depart as birds, cities flood with ghosts, and girlhood survives by learning to read the weather of men. Luminous, precise, and quietly shattering, this collection lingers long after the last page.

Published in 2026.