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[puchikonyo]

Visiting Malacca
Shirley Lim

Some one lives in the old house:

Gold-leaf carving adorns the doors.

Black wooden stairs still stand

And wind like arms of slender women

Leading to the upper floors.

It is as I remembered,

But not itself, not empty, not clean.

Some one has scrubbed the sand -

Stone squares and turned them red.

The marble yard is

Comments

[alistenhere]

I likeeeeeeeeeeee~ :)

[puchikonyo]

I like it too, though we never got around to discussing it in class yesterday. LOLL

The prof just read it out, twice, and oops, time's up.