was there frost on windows did we blow kisses to the dark outside did you point to the two overlapping slowly-disappearing circles was your arm around my neck did you say going, going, going gone is this what’s happening now to you and my memory of going, going, going gone?
Category Archives: English
the rainbow mall
around the ultra-modern water-walled new shopping mall people still put up fence in the old way: thin slices of old bamboo bits of wire and the reliable softness of the red earth of jakarta.
Une étape autour de mon ville
When is around town when I live très isolée? Am I out of the loop or breaking out of here? I can still see the peaceable kingdom on widescreen evenings I can still see the chanai stalls promoting Egypt on their window displays When do I have to start worrying? I have forgotten Kiarostami’s misgivingsContinue reading “Une étape autour de mon ville”
united
i came back for seconds but you weren’t there i don’t think we’ve ever met? i was too busy dusting myself off after every fall reading your blog it’s like i had once loved you in this city you make appointments to miss each other
villainelle deux
villainelle, deux* i’ve been trying to write poetry and failing no-mind in hyper-intellectual tzu-jan semacam keheningan yang dipaksakan life should be like that the empathy of burning windows i’ve been trying to write poetry and failing make compost out of burning leaves an addiction to delayed pleasures? semacam keheningan yang dipaksakan places get displaced inContinue reading “villainelle deux”
villainelle un
villanelle: – sembilan belas baris – 5 stanza tiap stanza 3 baris, kemudian 1 stanza akhir 4 baris – baris pertama di stanza pertama diulang jadi baris terakhir di stanza kedua dan keempat – baris terakhir di stanza pertama diulang jadi baris terakhir di stanza ketiga dan kelima – dua baris “chorus” ini jadi barisContinue reading “villainelle un”
we
the sky is a strange kind of blue the sun a slow walk of light under water the only real colour the neon orange of a safety vest the pink of a sea cucumber on a pale seabed a wall of ancient corals had been split in two a pier in smithereens next to aContinue reading “we”
pyar
It was something I carried everywhere It is something I carry everywhere A kind of displacement from the world A manufactured loneliness despite of you A flick of anger would precipitate it A manicured sense of injustice Like a golf course blown by a storm I don’t know what to do with it Or whatContinue reading “pyar”
US AIR MAIL
All those years of sticking with you. Even when you were totally, meat and potatoes. Is the atmosphere still littered with patchouli and sweat? I heard from 75 mutual friends that you’re now dancing with the stars. A non-dancing golden bear. Do you still bear the weight of the world on your shoulder, Warbonnet girl?
scrabbling
i need an extra n to spell out yr name on wordfeud i know u like me too by yr nervousness as we walk along the pavement for what seemed like centuries and a nanosecond i can feel the quiver in yr voice as u regale the coolish night air with stories of repressed urgesContinue reading “scrabbling”
Divagyrations 