Winter

by Ivan Ling

is in transition.

Cinnamons and red maples

are being deconstructed, 

having their colours paled

by monochromatic colonialism.

Recoloured and synthesised,

what was once blooming rust,

now ceases to exist in the path

of white glory.

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Ivan Ling currently works as a full-time editor but is also an avid book reviewer and poet. His works have been published in several journals and magazines, such as Eksentrika, Southeast Asian Review of English and Men Matters Online.