An Invoked Diligence
All worthwhile sympathies ruled out, the dakinis are lagging in their step. “Don’t mind their petty worked-up fears,” the First Dakini says, always discreet, discerning and fully at ease with a public diplomacy. “Look at these ragged claws in the brick,” the First Dakini raises the kiln to eye level, “never enough good faith, never enough mindfulness around these parts anymore.” Give Mount Olivet a cenobitic reason and the sophists will be written in the stars, shivery and awkwardly built. The Neanderthals have objected to being seated with lower lifeforms, and have befriended the Yeti. Should the dakinis stay, they need endure the vicious harpies with their pageboy bobs, Pokemon-pesky, blank stares and tight fists in an ineffectual vanity and vacuity. “Walk away from the two-faced double-dealing,” Mani says to the seven dakinis, jumping through their hoops to get to his version of an Anglo-Saxon nirvana.
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is reading an old scholastic work, The Metaphysical Passion: Seven Modern American Poets and the Seventeenth-Century Tradition, by the late critic Sonia Raiziss. A recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant and Dr Hiew Siew Nam Academic Award, Desmond has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations, with recent or forthcoming work in Cricket Online Review, Dark Sky, Folly, Grey Sparrow, Presence, Nano Fiction, Notes from the Gean, Spilling Ink Review, Sugar Mule, and Walnut Literary Review. Also working in clay, Desmond sculpts commemorative ceramic pieces for his Potter Poetics Collection, these works housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.
