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Swatow
When my people speak of who we are and where we come from We do not say, China. When my relatives reclaim our collective past, Those words—China—dance on our lips, foreign. We do not say China. We do not say China at all. Instead, we are the people of the coast. We are the subjects of the Tang Dynasty. We are the…
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Before & After The Fire
1961. Rain falling on zinc roofs. Neighbours having sex Hoping they won't be suay again. They have no money. The news coming from the sole television set. Children peeping for a glimpse of world affairs. Condensed milk cans filled with coffee. Ah Ba will have to go to the office. The office is also a shed. He carries…
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Two Weeks
Some weird poetry from 2003, when I was a wee child. two weeks before and the morning after all that mattered was not what really happened where it brings us now, or what a gamble we'd just taken. It was you planting your signature hasty goodbye sweetie on my cheeks in the elevator just before the doors opened to my…
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An Exercise of Faith
This was published in QLRS in Jan 2003. I had weighed the burden of desire in my hands but in yours you weighed reality between your fingers, half serious even as we tried to kid ourselves (and others) nothing else quite mattered. I weigh now the desire of burden in my fingers but in yours you now weigh illusion…
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