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Cyril Wong

CYRIL WONG is a poet and fictionist in Singapore. He is the founding editor of SOFTBLOW, a poetry webjournal.

Kiss
by Cyril Wong

March 1, 2021 Contributed By: Cyril Wong

Couple Kiss

What is new must also be unexpected and not what we think   is new— car crash, stalled lift juddering,   bed of thumb slit open, blood the surprise that keeps on giving— or else there is no freedom   from our conditioning: your body too heavy on mine;   your kiss the same old […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: March 1, 2021

Bowl
by Cyril Wong

March 1, 2021 Contributed By: Cyril Wong

Orchards

there is little we cannot accomplish without hearing our voices the music of not hearing voices not music but an atmosphere of existence   a bowl of still water with white yellow orchids curled in a gesture of tenderness across its open mouth silence over original silence which invites the hum of phenomena   shoring […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: March 1, 2021

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