Tim Tim Cheng

Mushroom Messages

It’s discovered that mushrooms speak around fifty words.

Bites, sun, moisture, dust…
they permeate through me
down vast, interlocking forests
like trains invented by silence.

TIM TIM CHENG is a poet and a teacher from Hong Kong, currently studying in Edinburgh. Her pamphlet Tapping at Glass is forthcoming in 2023. Her latest appearances include the Hidden Door festival, and The Loop, BBC Scotland. timtimcheng.com