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For when all is said & done you get born again for better days  

by Tse Hao Guang

I’m doing great 
from the neck down 
                                       one minute 
                     wakes 
                             early sweeping       the next 

                                       shatters & I’m lush 
                                  w/ praise 

     try as you may to silence 
            the oil spot 
                                                       the partridge feather 

    shine & flutter alone remains 
as it was before 

 

                        you crave immediate 
                                 effect while I alone remain 
                    as I was before 

                        one moment soap 
                           bubbles             the next teacups & 
     would you have 
known this was a sonnet 

                                   if I’d not said? 

          what a world-class world!

About Tse Hao Guang

Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2022) and Deeds of Light (Math Paper Press, 2015), the latter shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and the 2018 National Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University. His poems have been featured in Poem-a-Day, Tammy, New Delta Review, Pain, Minarets, Big Other, Hotel, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Entropy and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Singapore, where he continues to live and work.

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