WILL THE LAUNDRY BE DONE THIS SPRING?
and the socks will dry.
the crows will leave
their slippers on the soil.
i will peel a tulip
into a stick;
the fog will go.
no. you are handing me
a dress. my palm reaches
for its wrinkles. it is a sun,
stretching the leaves
of a sullen oak. oi,
stop being so cold. already
the grasshopper is nuzzling
my collar for warmth.
without fuss,
it hops after a breeze.
Min Lim is an undergraduate at Yale-NUS College and the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2016 (Singapore). Her works have appeared, or are forthcoming in SOFTBLOW and Eunoia Review. She writes at minlim.com.