Christina Chin

Malaysia

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night nurses

trudging home

in the dusky morning 

a parrot's whistle

from my window 

 

 

 

 

morning draught

whisps through a gap

the smell of coffee 

as I watch the bubbles 

foaming cream 

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more clotted cream

on the winter strawberries 

a momentary shriek 

as ghee spatters

off the frying pan

 

 

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a distant rumble

a neighbour shouts rain

as she unpegs 

the clotheslines

the clonk of wooden clogs

 

 

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a small town 

school reunion 

an accidental encounter 

made virtual strangers 

old friends 

 

 

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monsoon season 

the gush in the gutters 

fills the rain harvesters

a tea kettle boils

on the wood stove 

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