This poem was inspired by Chungking Express (1994), a Hong Kong comedy-drama written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It’s an anthology film, featuring two interlocking stories about love, proximity and non-traditional expressions of intimacy. The perfect film to write about on Valentine’s Day!
#14 – In the bar that you loved, I always almost see you
your floral perfume lingers like a kiss
your menthol cigarettes reduced to smoke
we’re always never meeting here like this
you are a conjuring produced from hope
proximity is such a fickle friend
uniting us in space but not in time
I write my name on napkins to pretend
that I am yours and that you might be mine
but we were destined to be passing ships
though once I thought I saw you by the door
I caught a fading smile around your lips
a smile I’d seen a thousand times before
an apparition bathed in pink neon
your perfume lingers longer now you’ve gone
LM
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