Singapore MOE Primary English
— A meditation on time through the perspective of a clock, whose red hand moves endlessly through numbers, carrying promises and memories without limits.
— A sensory catalog poem moves from mountain drives through rain showers to skiing, capturing moments of calm through specific smells and textures.
— Two kindergarteners get locked out of their classroom during a bathroom break and must overcome their fears and rivalry to find help together.
— A girl and her father venture into woods to craft a bow and arrows from oak branches, shooting them into the star-filled evening sky.
— Morning fog lifts as blackbirds sing and a coyote chases a dog, leaving the speaker wondering who cleared the fog away.
— A young poet transforms a seashell into a golden rose, a spiral staircase, and a tower, finding ancient scrolls of saltwater within its chambers.
— A bored car ride to Cape Cod transforms when the window frames a night sky full of stars, glowing trees, and the canal that signals almost home.
— A young poet searches for a golden orb for seven days, finally discovering it feels unexpectedly salty to the touch.
— A child's plea to be forgotten transforms everyday details—soup, Fruit Loops, a voice that travels through walls—into a meditation on presence and erasure.
— A meditation on impossibility and perception, where belief and action create paradoxes, and inner vision doesn't match outer reality.