ELLEN CHIA __________________________________ The Poem Would the poem lurking within Please announce yourself? Are you nature? A bird, a cloud, a tree Or a lily? Are you woeful or hopeful? Dwarfish or epic? Perhaps I don’t wish To know just yet – But to savor that moment Of being seized unawares; To gape with delight When you rear your head Exclaiming peek-a-boo Along with the messy Train of bones, sinews And flesh tumbling From your hiding place, Rolling off my tongue Onto the creamy leaf, Giving birth to yet another Slice of me.
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