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Postcolonial Text, Vol 12, No 1 (2017)

Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang

Memories of a Clay Dragon

my grandparents kept a ceramic dragon in their living room

it sat on the glass top of their coffee table as if floating on a lake

at my bedside my grandma wove tales of the dragon

its might and prowess its charismatic rule sometimes misadventure

or there was that particular story of her best friend who went to China and brought the dragon

to her house, a reminder of a land her family had left before she was even born

a country she felt strongly though through books and tales

but she never got to China herself

so she could only imagine a kingdom of dragons and tigers temples and offerings for deities

she could imagine that way until she lost herself

until speech escaped her brain

until like an empty shell, she sat down in the living room

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there was an expression something like a smile

as if the dragon was within reach

No Note Left

it was the hour of the rat robbed my uncle

he left

with no farewell

nothing written a kick and a jump

and fading to silence shadows of the unknown

left behind in his room the body from the rope

the rope from the beam the smile beyond the breath

and in the morning my aunt’s scream

dividing time from air

Dreams

dreams wake me before the alarm most mornings

they are the current jolts my spine special delivery

sparks jump synapses blur images to manifest what seems the speed of light

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they run around the waking mind just these few moments

die down before my pen can cage them into words

retreat to back of head, yet still may leap up unexpected later

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