Alumnae Poets
Lynette Ng '93
Lynette Ng is fond of pasta and public libraries. She studied English and Psychology at Smith College, Creative Writing at Mills College, and Culinary Arts at the New England Culinary Institute. Her poems have appeared in the Indiana Review and the Beloit Poetry Journal; the one below was published in AGNI Online. Lynette was born in Malaysia and currently lives near Boston.
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Hiroko, this is a newsflash
on wavelengths
that are nothing like Tokyo’s:
there is a shortage of snow, and gravity
remains an enigma. All that talk
over technology—tired tracks of light
bending and folding up
like clockwork and bass clefs.
Every week, I concede a point
of inflection. Remember
when they used to say
karaoke? Now stars are shrinking
past the event horizon; the escape
speed of phonemes is astonishing.
You know how Mercury charts
an eccentric orbit—there are no stop signs
on these highways; not enough
vinegar in the rice.