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8/4/2021

Poetry by Ally Chua

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                Jeff Ruane CC



monument valley

the miles of sundry road, frost front 
jarring against walls of red chalk, against 
tumbleweed sea.         

                                                              that night 

with three layers of thermal wear            
i sat in the dark

                              watched the        
                              parallel universe in the stars.

i               saw                      everything. 
not shaman visions. not ephemeral wisps.
 
but grand stands. 
                  celestial battles. 
                                                 light dying
                                                 in a flare of bright. 

i was half dead then, lost in a space
where i was eating myself apart.

it is not within me 
               to leave a fissure untouched.
i will hold it, grasp it, until
the mouth wakes, 

               says my name in a gasp.

               i did not understand
how to deal with a fissure 

                              i cannot touch. 

that night in monument valley,    
i saw everything.


                                              the natural order 
                                              of entropy

the inevitability
of collapse. 

                                               so i learnt then

                               it was okay
                               to hold an abyss.


                               it was okay
                               to be unfinished. 


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Ally Chua is a Singaporean poet. She works for a botanical attraction, and writes when she's not replying to emails within seven working days. She is the 2019 Singapore Unbound Fellow for New York City, and a member of local writing collective /s@ber. Ally has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cordite Poetry Review, and Lammergeier Magazine.

An avid solo traveler and reader, Ally finds inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including her travels, Richard Siken's words, the lyrics of Brian Fallon, and zombie video games.


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