As a productive literary and theater critic, he is a novelist and a short story writer, Afrizal Malna’s poems maintain a fine balance between consistency of style and variation in theme and subject which asserts his distinctive poetic use through precise diction and curious grammar. It is through the appearance of everyday objects that Afrizal’s poems emerge as a repository of the cultural meanings of space and things in Indonesia’s everyday modernity. These are poems that trace the quickly changing urban trajectory of present day Indonesia.