AN ARTIST

In his manuscripts, all periods

shape like bullets. Commas?

Ropes with loops.

:::

ELEPHANTS

She uses his back as a table

(coffee table?) and drafts a lot

of short poems on it

when he is sleeping and snoring--

Three elephants marching?

:::

SECONDHAND

You are my secondhand lover

But you always come first in bed

:::

Tammy Ho Lai-ming, aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-born writer. She is the editor

of Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (March 2006), Love & Lust (February 2008), a co-editor of Word Salad Poetry Magazine (if possible, link to

http://www.wsmagazine.net/) and a co-founder of the first Hong Kong-based

online literary quarterly, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (if possible, link to

www.asiancha.com). More at www.sighming.com.

POETRY