Nicole Lee

Curriculum Vitae

References 

may I a small house and large garden        if you really want to know about it you probably
want to know    stone walls do not a prison make nor iron      on ne connait pas la douceur
de vivre ne peut imaginer               tell her Barkiss is willing      when the morning stars sang
together and all         while not actually disgruntled he was very         far from its source the
grass rises      a man is not a piece of fruit attention must be    breath cast a cold eye on life
on death horseman pass        thou thy worldly task hath done home art gone and ta’en thy

Experience

thou shalt keep thine eye on the ball thinking not about it too much
thou shalt always return thine glasses/phone to thine bag to stave off  fruitless searching
thou shalt never do nor ever not do something for that thou fearest the judgment of others
thou shalt accept thou art whom thou art & if one liketh it not then may he fornicate off
for lo the more thou dost truly the better life is

Qualifications

for she can touch type and do double entry bookkeeping
for she speaks a smattering of many languages and none well
for she plays the piano and can whistle and snap her fingers
and she can bake a lemon pie for she has cool hands

Personal Details

             green             mamma stooping      the tall grass               clear water in the blue

lagoon            the little fishes                   cold fried chicken in newsprint                      high cliffs

          shark-infested straits of malacca                     acacia       bulbul           civet   

 lalang           the sudden night    post      the afternoon deluge 

cicada-twinkling starlight

Nicole Lee was born in Kuala Lumpur and educated at Malvern and Oxford. She has worked as a banker in Hong Kong and London and now works in environmental biodiversity and writes poetry. She has been published in various online journals, including Sine Theta, Crank, the Cabinet of Heed, Babel Tower and Bindweed, and has been long-listed in the National Poetry competition. Her work explores the experience of the Chinese diaspora, time, memory and displacement.