TSE HAO GUANG
In our unsteady house the windows shift constantly
that euphoria when
a new fire
comes
through the door
lost
at work
& tangled in the linen
in our spontaneous house the floors
give way gently to
visions
of Monday
coming
out my ear
will they be like a movie?
not a movie
but a film?
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling
& moths:
are cherries, not
bad but beginning
to be:
is twenty years
past & Irfan
wakes
from
milk dreams:
& it feels liquid
as glass:
on cue the car
park thickens
as the hum
of applause
fills
the ward:
you'll scare
the moths away
darling: you'll scare
the birds
Tse Hao Guang (谢皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2022) and Deeds of Light (Math Paper Press, 2015), the latter shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and the 2018 National Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University. His poems have been featured in Poem-a-Day, Tammy, New Delta Review, Pain, Minarets, Big Other, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Singapore, where he continues to live and work.