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I am very happy and excited that my new poem ‘The genealogy of tap water‘ exploring this often taken-for-granted body of water is now out in Otherwise, as part of its becoming issue.

Issue 42, 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine.

— Sudan, the last male northern white rhino is dead. He lived in the ‘OI Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, surrounded by armed guards in the days leading up to his death to protect him from poachers’.

—

if humans die

we stay up

three nights and three days

we weep next to the body

and hold their thoughts in our palms

till they become light and white

fly up to the heaven

watch the years to come

—

who have lived their lives between the grids

to cheat death – their bodies

among bleached corals and deprived soil

bear no fruits

for the centuries to come

—

can we                                                     do we

still light a candle                                   still utter a prayer

to mourn in a land                                  for a land

where air burns                                       where the chattering of the where

drying up colours                                    disappears

and lives

no          longer         return.  

* https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/20/africa/last-male-white-rhino-dies-intl/index.html

I am delighted to announce that my poem ‘Weathering’ has been selected for Raining Poetry in Adelaide 2018—a poetry street-festival led by the University of Adelaide and J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.

From September 2018, my work, along with other 28 wonderful poems will be tagged in invisible bio-degradable paint, and magically appear on the streets of Adelaide when it rains. What a poetic and lively way to make things VISIBLE.
Big thanks to the Raining Poetry team!

Let it rain.