Saturday, 3 Mar 2012 | Views [5608] | Comments [3] | Scholarship Entry
Snake Blood A medium-sized turtle is suspended upside down, its neck gravity-stretched to visually unnatural limits. Pitying its exposed head in a slow, slug-like writhe, I fight the urge to take it down myself. Tonight it will have its meat cooked ... Read more >
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Friday, 25 Mar 2011 | Views [851] | Scholarship Entry
Insight in Incense I never knew well the deceased Taiwanese poet, whose framed portrait is propped high in a mammoth-sized diadem of tropical flowers—the pale purples, pinks, and whites contrasting with the traditional reds and lustrous golds of the ... Read more >
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