
Bangkok
Sky Beach and City Lights: The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon
The lift climbs past the seventy-fifth floor, and your ears

The lift climbs past the seventy-fifth floor, and your ears

The city arrives before you do. Step off the Surasak

The boat slowed near a quiet stretch of the river,

The lift opens and the city arrives all at once:

The city was loud when I left it: horns, heat,

The first thing Bangkok gives you is heat. Then jasmine,

The road ahead had stopped being a road and become

The cold woke me before anything else did. Up here,

Like you’ve probably read from Sydney First, Then the Sea:

The light woke me before the alarm did. It came