Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020complete | Page 106

All those there on the Dongfeng motorbus.
iv. eroding
She shrugs on her blazer and tints her lips
with red. She seats herself behind the concierge
desk, warmest smile on
Greets those clusters of mothers and fathers and
children tugging suitcases:
Welcome to Macau! The number-one tourist hotspot
in the world
and is hit by a pang of emptiness
an ache inside of her.
She wonders when the time will come
Where in her bank account, money enough
When she would be able to
Bring her beloved Ba.
v. flowing away
Ladies and gentlemen, twenty
minutes across twenty-four kilometres;
We welcome you aboard the journey
across the Shenzhen-Zhongshan bridge.
It had been four
years.
Four years, and he hadn’t seen
her pink cheeks
smiling eyes
once.
Even twenty minutes:
too long.
vi. the river
There she was.
Squinting eyes body braced
neck craned, searching
amongst the hustle and
bustle
for that
familiar
face