On the theme of Life Cycle
OUROBOROS
—bright sight shines
as new love
through the winter:
our fathers’ fortunes
perch rabidly now,
their too-wide smiles
their moldering deity
linen cheeks whose
walls held songs—
on all
errs,
of all
darings,
leak out
to me
the pale
quiet grit
of being—
bright sight shines on all,
as new love errs
through the winter of all
our fathers’ fortunes, darings,
perching rabidly now, leaking out
their too-wide smiles to me,
their moldering deity, my pale
linen cheeks whose quiet grit-
walls held songs of being—
Author Biography
David Wong Hsien Ming was born in Singapore and discovered poetry as a child at a Sunday lunch. He is pursuing honors in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and has read poetry there and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His poetry has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Ceriph, Eye to the Telescope, and earned an Honorable Mention in Singapore’s Golden Point Award 2011.