hutt 1.1
  hutt - north fitzroy, australia
 
 
Toh Hsien Min is the author of two collections of poetry, Iambus (1994) and The Enclosure of Love (2001). His work has been published internationally in journals such as Acumen, Atlanta Review, London Magazine and Poetry Ireland Review, and he has also read at international literary events such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. He is the founding editor of the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (www.qlrs.com) and a recipient of the Shell-National Arts Council Scholarship for the Arts.

 

 
   
toh hsien min - rain

It has been raining ever since.

It leaches all colour out of the morning.
The light tarmac
flings back the potassium sky.

In the afternoon,
armadas of nimbostratus
approach, rapidly
splattering white glow on my slate roof
while refraction dribbles
down my window.

At night,
the streetlamp steams, and
glass scabs catch the
tangerine light
like sequins.