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regimen

regimen

 

 

our only inheritance

is silence. i swallow poems

in the curve

of an invented shadow.

one a day, just

like a vitamin. one

capsule contains the word

‘lover’. dewy air rests

within the lungs.

one dose crumbles into

sweet sweet tea. it spills

over and over from

under a mattress and

atop a body. like a cold

drink of water. like

a liquid murmur. a poem

like an antacid for 

longing. each dropping

into a gulf

of me. 

 

 


Jonathan Chan is a writer and editor. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore and educated at Cambridge and Yale Universities. He is the author of the poetry collection going home (Landmark, 2022) and Managing Editor of poetry.sg. He has recently been moved by the work of Clint Smith, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Dinah Roma. More of his writing can be found at jonbcy.wordpress.com.

 

Editorial Art by Dilara Sümbül

 

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