Tag: literature

A Blue Faucet

Posted on by villaalexisf

Water ran out. The pipes were dry. 
There was no telling whether
The faucet was close or open. 
Just tightly turned clockwise or counter-
Clockwise. I still live there, waiting
For random rations or rain. Fooling myself 
Of this impermanence. The plumbing 
Brittle: from moss to dust to decay. I stay
And rot as the dirt engulf me. On lucky days, 
I bathe. At my luckiest, I am clean, 
And at my lowest, I write. 

If Hokusai Depicted the Shore

Posted on by Dyne

I wrote a poem inspired by an artwork at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum.

If Hokusai Depicted the Shore

I found that things do not stagnate
Always inching towards flourishing
Or decaying. Maybe enchanted
By the ocean or engulfed by the flood.
It is water in essence yet functionally
Different. I’ll fixate on this: Could they carry
A drowning man’s struggle for the surface
To the nearest shore? Please send
Help – someone help him float – hope
That it gets to the one gasping for air.

Give it a century, the man is absent
The shore is no more. The water’s 
Approach to tranquility til there’s no more surface to cover. It would be difficult
To hope otherwise.

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Posted on by Dyne

I haven’t posted lately because I had to review for my comprehensive exams. Hopefully one step closer to finishing my MFA! 🤞

I’m currently reading Vonnegut. He’s the kind of writer I aspire to be: effortless wit, the kind of humor you reserve for your closest friends but hope that some like minded stranger would understand.