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- W4230212224 abstract "Two Poems Toh Hsien Min (bio) TRAJECTORIES To the side of the game on the big screen—Saturday night, FA Cup fifth round—comea couple of teenagers, the taller one maybesitting for his IB and the other still sheddingbaby fat. They put coins in the slot and slide itto set off the sound of phenolic resin rollingdown the drains. There is the satisfying clackof the balls racked right, and then the smackand clatter of the break. Over the clipped notesof Martin Tyler they’re shooting the balls,one with a little draw, the other with a little luck.Around them the aroma of English aleand the martingale of pub chatter have carveda space to be ignored in, but as the boysbend over the baize to take shots one-third fullto the far pocket I try the other choicesthey could not have surrendered to conjecture.Whether the white would have wound upback in the kitchen for the nine is at the unlocatablejuncture of eyesight and bicep and the precisewearing of the playing surface, and I should knowbut if they ask I shall shrug and sip my pint,and when I place my glass back on its matright on cue the girl I’ve been waiting for will arriveand pull me by my fingers out of the chairas though to tango, and I in her embrace willlook up and spot an enormous Lyssa zamparesting on a rafter, the Milky Way running downeach black wing like a trajectory or the end in sight. [End Page 194] APPROACHING HONG KONG So I don’t know how you can understandwhen your hand scrabbles into your postboxand pulls out my date-stamped postcard,upon which I tell you how my plane hada beautiful approach into Hong Kong:low cloud shawled around the hills,a steely weave of twilight in the distance,and bright speckles starting to knit the city together.I daresay if you had been in that window seatyou would not have entrusted to the failure of wordspale glass blue on the reservoirs revelling in sky,the tremulous slowing as the flaps took hold,and the black hulk of Lantau Islandsolidifying in the deepening of dusk, and then,low past its ashen edges, the velvet seafurrowed by the wakes of out-of-sight shipslike cuts needing more than time to heal,its tungsten ruffling with close-up waves,flattening out to the fine-thump landing:how memorable, and elusive, and sad. [End Page 195] Toh Hsien Min Toh Hsien Min has published two collections of poetry, Iambus and The Enclosure of Love. His work has also appeared in such periodicals as the London Review of Books. He is founding editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, recipient of the Shell National Arts Council Scholarship, and organizer of Singapore’s first international poetry festival, Wordfeast. Copyright © 2014 University of Hawai‘i Press" @default.
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