You Cannot Count Smoke Harvill Secker As Toru navigates campus life

As Toru navigates campus life and loneliness

The Great Wall of China

a miner in the interior of Mars

an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem

I knew we were both in mortal danger

You Cannot Count Smoke Harvill Secker As Toru navigates campus lifeThese little poems are my orphaned children, with no book or anthology to call their home (until now) due to their mysterious, even surrealist, qualities that have begun to occupy my writing in a gradual but certain way. The ambivalences of love, depression, mortality you will find all of these themes here, all grounded in a perspective that remains, I hope, fiercely introspective and personal. ~ Cyril Wong