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Three Love Poems: Water

Three Love Poems: Water

Three Love Poems: Water

The certainty of water
is that it slips through the fingers

so

let us hold each other loosely
as we drink.

© 2004, Miriam Lo
From: Against Certain Capture
Publisher: Five Islands Press, Wollongong

Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Miriam Wei Wei Lo was born in Canada, raised in Singapore, and has lived in Australia since 1993. She is of Chinese-Malaysian descent on her father’s side and Anglo-Australian on her mother’s side. Lo’s poetry explores family, home and heritage, unfolding the histories that underwrite the everyday realities of living in relation to others in the intimate space of the family and within the broad...

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Three Love Poems: Water

The certainty of water
is that it slips through the fingers

so

let us hold each other loosely
as we drink.

From: Against Certain Capture

Three Love Poems: Water

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