Precise in density & the smell of the earth in them
where once would
ship or letter now I who
am cultured vpn espe
cially 7
day free
trial—— today I’m just
almost on sale
aunty says o way unripe
in air something
makes Shanghai
nese uncurl
loose leaf be
cultured ferm
ented beans & dreams
the youth are & harm
onius as fat river
crab
*
check:
2 plastic bowls
heaped resin noodles
magnet & mini sea food a throaty
spit then you’d
could infact
live on WeChat
(but look you’d
wear a QR code every
one selfies like Lu Xun—
I know
his death mask
just there— bringing feel of free
break
fast brought shot of be cultured
of the odd free
trial’s just 7—
Is Chinatown your eternal burden?
Limitless like the universe?
I’d gnaw
your leg, China
town says, monkey
fat on back
twitter
ing poetry-
like, like such
tumorous pink
crystal &
red, thick velvet
every single
where I
I double-
boiled agent
count
change, worry
the bone of you,
chickenfeet
Tse Hao Guang (謝皓光) is a Singaporean poet and editor, assembled with parts from Hong Kong and Malaysia. His first full-length poetry collection, Deeds of Light, was shortlisted for the 2016 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. He has poems in Pain, Minarets, Big Other, Hotel, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Sand, AJAR, Illanot Review, High Chair, Entropy, Third Coast, and Prairie Schooner.