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October 2009, no. 315

La Mian in Melbourne

‘La Mian in Melbourne’ by Kim Cheng Boey

by Kim Cheng Boey
October 2009, no. 315

On Little Bourke Street it’s the bewitching hour
of winter dusk’s last riffs playing
long mauve shadows down the blocks,
waking the neon calligraphy, its quavering script
mirrored on the warm sheen of the Noodle King

 


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