“Lenten Gragoh” | Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Vol. 17 No. 4 | October 2018
Easter Sunday; Sambal Sotong in the fridge.
Belacan in jars. The longer you keep the Devil,
the tastier it is. I enter the kitchen.
Nanny’s already there
like Mary Magdalene weeping
at the tomb.
I smell the sea again.
It has risen.
A poem that weaves Eurasian culinary traditions with Catholic rituals performed during Lent, a sacred time leading up to the Passion of Christ.
Arin Alycia Fong 