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  • Poetry Reading: Inside and Outside, b...

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    In the far and remote village of the west of Canton Province,
    When my mother conceived me,
    I curled up inside her tummy,
    My mother bulged outside.

    After I was born, crying,
    I often slept in a cradle bearing a mosquito net.
    My mother sang baby songs ceaselessly, squ...

  • Poetry Reading: THE LOST THINGS, by N...

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    We’ve broken things and smashed them,
    torn them to pieces,
    burned them and buried them.
    Words left unspoken,
    Love left unmade.
    You took everything that I had,
    and then you left me where I laid.

    You soaked me with your love,
    but then you hung me out to dry,
    leaving m...

  • Poetry Reading: I THOUGHT YOU WOULD B...

    Narrated by Val Cole

    READ POEM:

    Two weeks before you died-
    You were joking, laughing, and seemed alright.
    I thought you would be fine.

    We talked and joked and watched the skyline-
    From your hospital bed at half-light
    Two weeks before you died.

    As the day wound down, I saw no sign-
    And when w...