Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde
as with senryu a ticking clock
marlowe speaks with donne
the tea’s minty aftertaste
like winter’s first snow
now anonymous
design, tonal, of nature
now a personage
its anthropomorph
calling out to the north wind
to quell the storm cloud
augment the loud yawp
downdrift of barnacle geese
flying with the sky
fauvism is a tumbleweed haiku
retinue footnote
a passing into hearsay
red nosegay
reels prying apart anew
dead asterisk –
petalage of watermarks
also eulogy
also eulogy
for henry james in the shade
chupalla spinning
he needs a wednesday
middles to tumble a graph
four parabolae
crushed letter in his fist
eudaemonism in a senryu novel
that one’s new fiction
remains on the shore, its sand
a clean slate, of shale
and a lithosphere
so together, angels buck
unsaddled riders
that muscles and arch
untether wings, village tale
turned big history
turned siltstone, hammer
brought to its edge, a chisel
to bear its own weight
solarism is a leaning of senryu
gap between chance and premise
its inches three steps too wide
not the nonetheless or please
not forever of nods
or a walk to corner street
this sun eclipsing itself
naked, your body a sheen
backlit, the thrust stage ornate
no aprons on the sidewalk
as with the sun and their eyes
who will bury the adage?
velvet mood to dull
senses as muddy, half moon
no walls and stopped time
Based in Singapore, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé has recent or forthcoming work in Cyclamens and Swords, Floorboard Review, Legendary, Nano Fiction, Oral Tradition, Pank, Smoking Poet, Straylight, and Whale Sound. A recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant and Dr Hiew Siew Nam Academic Award, he has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. Also working in clay, Desmond sculpts commemorative ceramic pieces, these works housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. More information available at: Saatchi Online.
Desmond Kon at Very Like a Whale
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