[Digital Poetics 4.14] Four Poems by Tim Tim Cheng

Image by Sopo Ramischwili-Schäfer

where

響 

homes 

hover 

above 

a 

sound

邊

from 

the 

lips 

of—

---

---

Silence

At Mogwai’s gig, a girl,
armed with a belt
of Yakult,
danced
and

knocked
onto me.

The bottled lager
I was drinking
removed the
tip of my
teeth—

all 

I heard
was a ringing
through my skull,

which
sheltered
me
within

the wall
of sound.

---

Antarctica formed its own accent

Vowels  
lengthen 
with 
daylight
moving
from
throats
to
mouths 
like
ice
to
sea
to
say
its 
is
to
say 
h-
ours

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Tim Tim Cheng is a poet from Hong Kong, currently based between Edinburgh and London. She is the author of Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023) and The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024). timtimcheng.com