// MATH PAPER PRESS

MATH PAPER PRESS, an imprint of BOOKSACTUALLY is a small press publisher of poetry, new
wave novellas, full-length novels, and essays. Its eclectic range of literary and visual works also
includes photography collections, memoirs and young adult fiction.

MATH PAPER PRESS also distributes books by small selected presses.

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// UNMARKED TREASURE
poems by Cyril Wong
 
 

 
A GHOST steps out of its body after a suicide and looks
back at it in wonder. The poet wonders at his own
existence and struggles between actual living and a
desire to depart. Recipient of the Singapore Literature
Prize, this collection is Cyril Wong’s most personal
sequence of poems, held together by memories about
family life and intimate relationships, these moments
charged with the pain of love, dreams and death and an
unflinching exploration of the self.

Published by MATH PAPER PRESS (2012)

Distributed by MATH PAPER PRESS
ISBN-13: 978-981-05-0408-3
Retail Price: SGD 16.00

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THE AFFAIR

—
My father, a recent retiree, decided to have an affair with the broom. My
mother never suspected a thing. She only wondered once, and only for a split
second, if her husband was perhaps spending too much of his free time doing
housework.

A few months into the affair, the broom asked him to marry her.

“I can’t. I already have a wife,” he replied. “But we can always have an affair.”

And they did. As my mother continued to work in the day, he would pull out
the broom from closet by her waist and dance her down the corridors of the
house, her bristly dress sweeping erotically across the dusty marble.

He even told the broom how deeply he loved her. She would look at him for a
long time after that and answer that she would never let him go.
THE BURNING FIELD

—
The perfect poem
would arrive

when I am forty,
or maybe older, I told myself

before coming home this evening

to the voice of ma and pa

scraping like plates of the earth

along a fault, while my sister

crumbled like a house on fire

outside their bedroom door.

And I knew
I could not wait. That night,

I sat before my computer screen

and waited for the poem

to come like rain

upon a burning field,

and did not sleep.

— Excerpt from Unmarked Treasure by Cyril Wong

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