KristineOngMuslim

Poetry by

Kristine Ong Muslim

"Outside the window"

is a man with no name.

I blink to make him disappear,
but he is as big and wide-eyed
as the sky above him.

He looks wistful, probably dreaming
of going to the beach to watch
the mermaids drown and the seaweeds
tear their glistening masks off to reveal
the greenish lack of emptiness within.

He never gazes up to see the light
I have left on inside my bedroom.
Moving on, he misses the glare therein
that wants to be let out.

"Sinking"

Peering down
you see yourself looking up
on the stagnant water surface
of your silent wishing well.

"Drama is edible and red"

like not-yet-warm fire
engulfing a legless mothball
of a husband making finicky
little noises with the next-door-
neighbor bimbo in crinkled scarlet.

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Kristine Ong Muslim has more than three hundred stories and poems published/forthcoming in mostly genre professional and small press magazines and anthologies. Her mainstream poems have been published or will appear in Adbusters, Bleeding Quill, FireWeed, Megaera, The Pedestal Magazine, T-Zero, and elsewhere. Her publication credits are listed here: http://www.freewebs.com/blackroom8

Kristine's poetry also appears in Autumn Skyline E-Magazine available on Skyline Magazines