LONTAR issue #1 by Jason Erik Lundberg (editor)

Author:Jason Erik Lundberg (editor)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Math Paper Press

5. Confluences

Gradually, civilizations from the East

traded well with us—the Hindu-Buddhists

bringing too, the arts of temple friezes—

the visages of men who would be dewas;

and our best were sent to India for higher learning,

or for steps of temple dance and architecture;

or China-ward to understudy ceramics,

and learn the forging of metals into gongs.

Next, dragon-headed Chinese temple priests

settled among us. They carried the South Sea goddess

for prosperity among our sea-town merchants,

hosting loud occasions with gods and ghosts

deploying gunpowder, fire-crackers, and sky rockets

to scare their dead souls when they got too hungry.

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