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Poems written whilst inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Australia Centre Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Epigraph: Your mouth is your tiger. - Malay proverb
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, 1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- Glass Wordsi"Desire's flesh, like glass words", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Three Poems, sequence poetry (p. 1-3)
- Graphic Imagesi"Disarmed, the poet is speech", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Ancient Noisei"He used to talk to God, praying", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Conversation: A Truncated Faxi"Often I say so much that I don't understand what I wanted to", single work poetry (p. 4)
- The Monster is the Nightmarei"of realising the meaning of everything you have said,", single work poetry (p. 5)
- No Womani"A photon ricochets through the wilderness of her skull.", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- Translated Mani"To hear myself think in this noisy city I plug my ears.", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Be Carefuli"be mindful if you wake someone here:", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Four Images, sequence poetry (p. 10-11)
- The Monkey-seller's Stalli"The monkeys in the tv-sized cage at the roadside", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Rocki"The volcanic rock on my desk performs solidly.", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Azani"Voices from nearby minarets, in an asynchrony,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- This Pathi"Anyone can walk this path where the eyes have no moon", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Takbirani"There is a night when all radios transmit like minarets,", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Looking at a Booki"The pembantu, being illiterate,", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Raini"The rain, body temperature and linear, unlike a maternal phantasm,", single work poetry (p. 19)
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