Christina Sng is the Bram Stoker and Elgin Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares and Astropoetry. Her work has appeared in numerous venues worldwide and garnered over 70 awards and nominations, including the 2018 Jane Reichhold International Prize, the 2016 Harold G. Henderson Award, and Honourable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and the Best Horror of the Year.
Love Game
the memory
of your kiss
strawberries
granite moon
we clash wills
over another non-issue
deadwood
your reluctance
to hold my hand
solo dinner
quiet Monday
at the diner
old love
the rush I feel seeing you
still new
~
Housewife
motherhood
the soft curves
of a pear
sandwiched
by my children
three BLTs
sundown
the children’s voices
an octave higher
midnight repairs
pats on the back
I give myself
dusting
blissful thoughts
of oblivion
dry leaf
a life once
lived
~
Girl on Fire
For Minz and Maunz who had to see this
Little girl
Plays with matches
While her parents are out.
The cats wail for her to stop.
Too late!
The flames light her up
Like a Christmas tree
While her poor cats cry out for help.
She burns and burns
Till she is ash
And bone.
The cats weep a brook in their home.
(Reinterpreted from Heinrich Hoffmann’s Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug in Struwwelpeter)