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Planting Mines

As if rice fields, with
rows and channels we ply across. Almost
idyllic under the heat and rain
of sweat, dedicated to the task of
giving ourselves to the land, planting
seeds that have no leaves, no blossoms -

to even try to find a road home. Porcelain bowls
and dinner at the table, waiting for all
to return. And a mother feeling an ancient pride
as the steam rises, and her young son smiles.

By Thow Xin Wei


QLRS Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003

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  Other Poems in this Issue

On Silence
By Mark Pirie.

Rimutakas
By Mark Pirie.

Mouth Piece
By W.B. Keckler.

Here Russia spreads her legs like the body compass of a prima ballerina
By Ronny Someck.

Return to Kuantan
By Oswald LeWinter.

modes of transport
By Shazanah Hassan.

The All-Night Attendant at the Foreign Experts' Compound
By Charles Lowe.

 

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