Fortitude

A lesson learned: when you are on holiday, slow down on the business and pleasure combo. A lappy is also too much detail for hats, spun rayon skirts and flip flops. Those are my sad knees on the screen. By the time I thought of dumping work, my friends were too far off the other side of Elephant Island.

Haiku Heights * Weekend Reflections

Shimmer

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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Island getaway, Ivanne, Styx

Shimmering witness
love song on moonlight island
hearts dance to First Time

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Sugar

16 Saturday Feb 2013

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Kanchanaburi, sugarcane field, train ride home

Canes fly past the sun
from a speeding train window
come home to my cup

Sweetest name
for a beloved?
try Fructose

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Pride

02 Saturday Feb 2013

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Dictators

Hubristic
head falls from power
learns on knees

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Death

12 Saturday Jan 2013

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wake

Mourners play mahjong
roadside wake in progress
coins fill the alms jar

There is ginger tea
unnecessary wailing
bright bulbs like searchlight

Huge truck loses brakes
crashes hut, plows the coffin
poor dead dies again

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Script

05 Saturday Jan 2013

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doctor's script

Lanky l’s, thin t’s
on scented stationery
illegible script

sweet love scribbles like
chicken claw scratches on soil
he’s now a surgeon

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A quick trip down memory lane: He was seventeen. I was sixteen. His letters showed hints that he was poised to become a doctor. He sent roses…. We drifted apart. It was tough. But like everything else you get over it.

Fast forward to 2012: He sent me a brief note. Probably written during a break in a 16-hour shift. This time it was absolutely legible. Facebook does wonders ;p