Sou Vai Keng’s ‘the past smells of something rotten’
Sou Vai Keng’s ‘the past smells of something rotten’
from art of ignorance
like an apple
fallen on a late summer day
buried under a shroud of
dead leaves
a horse carrying a small girl
carelessly steps on it
seeds, exposed, dry
under violent sun
two days later
rain nurtures everything
including maggots
at last reduced into a form
unrecognizable
apple is no more, until
a poet passes by
looks at the tree
up and down
thinks deep into the roots
and writes down the past that
smells of apples
rotten and forgotten
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