'east of the sun, west of the moon'
we're far up at windows
in a city flashed
with new year stars
lion dance bristles
tracking the asphalt
white and gold verticals
colonial spires
another year's breath
heats the dry season
and its cocktail vocal
press into dark
nodes and expression
'how insensitive'
air labours to be cold
candles refresh the river
fire cracker thousands
it's a family thing
in a way station of strangers
caught between straits
bow over the card
and the god money
gong xi fa cai
Singapore, 9 February 2005
in a city flashed
with new year stars
lion dance bristles
tracking the asphalt
white and gold verticals
colonial spires
another year's breath
heats the dry season
and its cocktail vocal
press into dark
nodes and expression
'how insensitive'
air labours to be cold
candles refresh the river
fire cracker thousands
it's a family thing
in a way station of strangers
caught between straits
bow over the card
and the god money
gong xi fa cai
Singapore, 9 February 2005
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