The Group’s annual Christmas Celebration!
Monday, 20 December 2010
7.30pm @ Telok Blangah Crescent
Join us for a time of worship, thanksgiving, food and fellowship—and why not bring something to the table to share at dinnertime?
Please contact Aaron Lee via aaron@createlevoyage if you need directions.
Writer: Rachel Au-Yong
Photo credit: Sharon Huang-Wok
Collisions
amidst the weightlessness of time
the gravity of our situation is apparent.
the pain is profoundly singular— even snowflakes, suspended
in an uncontrollable descent, know
there will never be another like them.
everything is up in the air;
we are aimless asteroids in search of answers.
i try to conceal my heart
–these tongue-tied aches–
but in my mind’s eye,
they are bodies-atmospheric dancing in between the sheets,
the quickened pulse and calm serene,
like dust settling in slow-motion.
so i wake, spiral-bound:
the light should hit us any time now,
a snapshot in eternity that tells us
loneliness once cried out from the center of the universe.
***
About the poet:
Rachel Au-Yong is working towards a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in Eye on the World: Healing Silence and performed at How to Cook a Wolf, a women’s poetry session.
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