Cyril Wong



Grave

The lovers are taking it slow. They are drawing out the days of nothingness, making them last. Who will be the first to go? Who dares to answer such questions? The lovers in church are praying only for each other. …

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By Christmas

I’d like to be gone by Christmas. Not due to sadness (nothing so trivial, even as she waves to me across time) but because I’m done. Or because I’ve no more agenda, nobody left to impress, nothing to do that …

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Complementarity

A monk told me about how Niels Bohr used Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji to explain the notion of complementarity. The different lights … that only together did they give the full and impressive picture, the physicist was …

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Movie

Who knew we’d like the same movie, Lost in Translation? You brought the DVD (which, in the end, we never watched together) to the hotel room, along with cigarettes, tidbits, and other paraphernalia to heighten our play; barely stuffing the …

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Moses Iten Reviews Paul Hardacre, Terry Jaensch and Cyril Wong

Although Love in the place of rats and Excess Baggage and Claim – both published by the independent Melbournian press transit lounge – arrived in the mail together, it was the disquieting title of Paul Hardacre's second poetry collection that grabbed me first.

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Way Out

Cyril Wong is the author of three collections of poetry: Squatting Quietly, The End Of His Orbit and Below: Absence. He lives in Singapore.

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Landing

Cyril Wong is the author of three collections of poetry: Squatting Quietly, The End Of His Orbit and Below: Absence. He lives in Singapore.

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Part of a Discussion

Cyril Wong is the author of three collections of poetry: Squatting Quietly, The End Of His Orbit and Below: Absence. He lives in Singapore.

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