You bottled message parlour
woman. You crackled knuckle.
You tremulo. I am divining joss
in your will. I am folding you into
a boat. I am paying Father to take
a short trip. To look elsewhere. Oh,
you cloud of jade. You page of
filled out crossroad answers.
You wreath of drawers. You little
wreck of bouquet flowers. I am
drawing you a bath in absentia.
I am letting you out, like a flood.
I am letting you, out like a flood.
Valen Lim is a member of Singapore-based writing collective /Stop@BadEndRhymes (/S@BER). His poems have been published in various SingPoWriMo anthologies, as well as Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. He can be found online at https://uglystage.com.
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