Two poems from Goldfish (Chameleon Press, 2013) Mother and Child You showed me how to tell a fresh egg by its shell, holding it up against the lamp. You’d look up at the sky, predict from the stillness of the air when the rain would arrive. The language of your dishes: ginger and tangerine peel … Continue reading Two poems by Jennifer Wong
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‘Anatomy’ by Jennifer Wong
Anatomy You brought me to see the collection at Lincoln Inn’s Fields, all skulls rib-cages valves fossils teeth cat’s villi red as corals sets of flawlessly preserved teeth taken from mammals. You gasped at the cutting truth behind the glass, the precision of the knife. Perhaps it’s not uncanny, this curiosity to gut, … Continue reading ‘Anatomy’ by Jennifer Wong