surreal hummingbird morning
garden papaya drips dew
kingfishers flash blue against candy-floss skies.
Judy Collins sings of Chelsea
warming chill of jeep cabin
softening hard pangolin killing road
three cat stooges in compound.
warming sun
bougainvillea bright
golden helliconia, jasmine
mangy, mangled one-eyed thief in kitchen stealing fish.
brighter hotter morning
sky cleared to pale blue
sun pounding grass to yellow
bleaching paintwork
cobras slithering for shade.
languid day in Malim Nawar
post colonial
lost tin town
centuries forgotten
railway track bypassed
Mrs Hameed’s Bollywood restaurant
post Ramadan thosa eaters
sit between time and teh tarik.
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