Singapore poet Leong Liew Geok inspired the Private Moon installation
Moon at window sill,
Smiling crescent parked outside,
Unwilling to budge
On flat roof with me
Silent witness of lit rooms:
Unknown company
Bent over with you
Piggyback-rider,
to gauge—Water below bridge!
My yoke of white jade,
Sole passenger to ferry
Wherever I row
Your Brightness on sled
I lug across waves of snow.
Why can’t You float home?
At this opening
You’ll wait, light at tunnel’s end,
Anticipating
I’ll come to take you
Home to your usual table ….
Here—eat these apples!
Stuck on snowy roof
You’re prostrate, an empty stage
I’ll shovel upright
You’re there, attic moon,
Before I end an antique
Trip to count cobwebs
Side by side we lie—
Keep your whole self covered, else
I won’t get to sleep!
Leong Liew Geok 3 October 2008
Dr Leong Liew Geok, an English professor, sent me these seven haikus based on an installation at City Hall. She’s written two volumes of poetry so far: “Love is Not Enough” and “Women without Men”. A third one, “Passions”, is on the way.
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