Sweetness
from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Sweetness of fish sauce and tonal voice
My mother with slippers I crawl
singing towards the floor
Hearing
the tones later
my boy hugs shoulders
asks Are you OK?
The vocals from bending
the voice is another
comes from the bending
Rice & fish are like
mother & child
A river road under a big moon
crawling and singing
I did this need hold me being
in exile no milk warm
Another said By the grace
go I (could have been
a Nestlé casualty
or creamed corn dysentery
Musical references all over the place
Lotus women gather flowers
in their low boats
In the passport picture
me amoebic with a shaved head
thin shoulders
Which is the fish?
The child?
a bamboo tube resonator
a wooden rod
halved coconut shell half
a silk string
