Singapore 12/09: Light and shade

i.
return to race; but
new level of graciousness.
new pecking order.

ii.
stranger in my house.
make the right gestures but i
feel the elephant.

iii.
slow bullet train.
how fast can you go in
a country so small?

iv.
my iPhone headphones
can't block out noisy child
or ugly passengers.

v.
24/7
shopping - distraction from
my dislocation.

vi.
no more Mercedes.
gone are your status symbols.
no shortage of gods.

vii.
old haunts, old habits.
points of reference give way
to memory.

Ian Row

people in a hurry
the Salvation Army bell
rings rings rings

Bill Kenney

i.
Memories surface
I offer rafts to most, but you
You I'll let drown

ii.
"Of course, we're not true.
I won't tell if you don't tell,"
Trouble said to Time.

Jeff Patterson

Oratorium -
therein pronounced these great words:
'Shut up and listen!'

Chris Gill

A haiku about proprioception

proprioception
body, i do not know you
in my mind i am

Ian Row

You saw flowers as
useless, dead - even those offered
with love, alive

Jeff Patterson