Lynette Tan Yuen Ling has a PhD in Film Studies and has published poetry, short stories, and children’s books. She is also Director of Studies at Residential College 4, National University of Singapore where she teaches Systems Thinking.
Porous: A reflection on Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Background, Casually’ (1965)
I don’t come from anywhere anymore
I come from everywhere
and my skin tells me how that feels
stretched so thin, porous
nearly invisible
you don’t see me
you can’t place me
my nowhere place is where I am