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Issue # 8 September 2012
"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Bio


Chris Mooney-Singh, an Australian settled in Singapore has several publications and music fusion CDs to his name. His newest collections are 'The Bearded Chameleon' (2011) and 'The Laughing Buddha Cab Company' (2007). Mooney-Singh's fiction has appeared in 'The Best of South-East Asian Erotica', 'The Best of Singapore Erotica', 'Love and Lust in Singapore' and 'Crime Search'. He is also a noted performance poet and the founder of Poetry Slam in Singapore and Malaysia. He travels trans-nationally and is presently a post-graduate research scholar at Monash University, Melbourne.


Chris Mooney-Singh


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The Empty Swing

Perhaps it was the rain,
a hand of breeze,
or gang of bees
that jazzed the ropes.

Perhaps a finch flew up,
a belled cat pounced with a tinkle,
a slow dog jumped and missed
then barked them all away.

Can the wooden frame
tell the purple cushions
why the swing is swinging?
Perhaps you came and left.