Rain Over Kuala Lumpur
The milky white mist rolls across the Klang River in April morning in shrouds of silence with the shrill of the eared nightjar breaking night to early light across the still sleeping city. A rouge cloud threatens rain with the rising heat thunder cracks across the sky near Ketumbar Hill and soon the lalang grass is covered in rain moisture that quickly dries as quickly as the thunder and rain comes and goes and I’m reminded of how fleeting beautiful things are if we let them go too soon. Gingko in a Tokyo Street The tree sparrow nestles upon the wire and tries to translate into song — how the ginkgo lost her yellow dress that day While under neon lights — illuminated mannequins show dresses she’ll never wear. There’s a dynasty of lost souls — I see them. Waiting like Hachiko; for death to be reversed. Kintsugi Imperfections Meadow morning kisses the light, beckoning me to a two-fold road with a rust-old generational gate. Shadows laced across your face / daughter of grace, with a petal face fragile, like crystal, almost l ike - kintsugi. I swallow your imperfections whole / they devour me. Swallows fly across the weathervane uncertain to where, the wind blows / uncertain to where, the water flows. The sun an orange blush. Bio: Robin McNamara is an Irish poet. His debut chapbook Under a Mind’s Staircasewas published in June 2021 (Hedgehog Poetry Press UK). His forthcoming full collection, Monochrome Heart is being published in late 2022. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for ‘Apple Picking Season’from Under a Mind’s Staircase
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