The Long Necked Bottle

The collection presents a handful of short lyric pieces that juxtapose seafaring and urban imagery with fragments of Asian places and street life, shifting between vivid sensory detail and ironic social observation. Poems use concentrated snapshots — a long-necked bottle and soaring albatross, cramped Chinatown scenes, market and food-stall particulars — to examine commerce, spectacle, and the human body as commodity or story. Language leans on sharp visual metaphors, tonal shifts from bemusement to unease, and occasional editorial notes about the volume's handmade production, giving the poems an intimate, crafted frame.