Poems
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Windmills
By Eileen Chongfor M. Heeremans
Windmills, with their latticed, sweeping arms,
hand-painted onto miniature porcelain clogs. -
Turban
By L-FRESH The LIONThere’s something about the way
a member of royalty wears their crown.
The crown represents royal status. -
Waiter's Friend
By Corey WakelingFirst question of my interrogation is why now, when
there’s no pressure to return to the subject of poverty.
It’s sore only when the plaster cast peels off and this desiccate
paw reveals itself the yardstick for what goes beyond the hand -
Face-washer
By Eileen ChongGeylang Methodist Chinese Church, Singapore, 1985
This cloth, a dirty pink, threadbare:
ropes of terry-white stripe its breadth -
Souvenir
By Kate MiddletonWhat else fashioned from earth survives?
Bone white; fired terracotta;
trickster raven black with turquoise eyes.
The geometric autograph of pueblo. -
skin tight/worn thin
By Royce Kurmelovsthe story in these jeans is skin tight
it's the concrete dust from the rooftop you climbed
the first time you stayed up all night to watch the sunrise