Category Archives: Poetry

Eight Minutes Twenty Seconds (2020) For a long time I’ve been strugglingStruggling to reach the surfaceConstantly losing myselfTo suddenly reappearBeing absorbed and re-emittedAbsorbed and re-emittedAbsorbed and re-emittedFor ten thousands of yearsAbsorbed and re-emittedConstantly losing myselfTo suddenly reappear Now I have emerged at the surfaceOf the star you call the SunAs I surface, I am notContinue reading “New Poem: Eight Minutes Twenty Seconds”

An indictment of monolingual anglophones(present company of course excluded) (2019) Once when I was fifteenI nearly had a visa application deniednot because of anything wrong with my paperwork,or my pass-photo,or my fingerprints,it wasn’t even that I had mistakenly ended up on a watchlist.It was just that I didn’t recognise my name.You and your ancient loudspeakerContinue reading “Poem: An indictment of monolingual anglophones”