After Darren Soh
A great hand rises from the ground
to sweep the insubstantial sand,
gathering to a crown, an iron
crown, the roots of homes. A fire
chills the...
TSE Hao Guang 谢皓光 (poet; Singapore) is the author of hyperlinkage (2013) and Deeds of Light (2015), both published with Math Paper Press. Deeds of Light was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize. He co-edits the cross-genre, collaborative literary journal OF ZOOS, is the essays editor of poetry.sg, and is co-editing UnFree Verse, an anthology of Singaporean poetry.
After Darren Soh A great hand rises from the ground to sweep the insubstantial sand, gathering to a crown, an iron crown, the roots of homes. A fire chills the... media_text
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are easy to possess—the dim tunnel where trains flow, submerged halls fevered and dense, make it such that if we go barefoot we will touch high places, anyhow—or so they... media_text
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Careful: step out into the not-quite-street. It used to be a swamp, and sunk boar, pushed roots into the air, and stank, and free from old purposes still it tries to take you in.... media_text
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