I read your application
Of a scholarship
You said
The scholarship
Would help you
Get new stationery
You said
You long to have
New pencils
I remember
In grade school
I wrapped paper
Around pencil stubs
To make them last longer
That’s four decades ago
In China
Back then
A third world country
We are in 2023
You are in Australia
Facing the same poverty
I can’t help
But cry
Month: Nov 2023
Time Apart
The space between us
Allows
Anger to be exhausted
Resentment to be overdone
Sadness to be evaporised
Memory to be filtered
And love to return
Uninspired
The nib is dry
Scratches through
Paper thin motivation
Leaving incoherent words
Suddent Panic
今天
我突然
心惊
在想
如果
我死了
你不知道
怎么办
后来
我想了想
觉得
没事
反正
我现在
生活得
怎样
你也是
不知道
Suddenly
I
Panic
Thinking
What if
I don’t know
About your passing
Then
I
Shrug
Realising
Nowadays
I don’t know
Anything about you
Anyway
Book Launch
Virginia Bucknell and Cassa Bassa Book Launch 7 December.
Virginia and I are having our book launch for “A Collection of Poetry and Paintings” next month in a local library. And our book will go into the library catalogue. We are both very excited.
