I marvelled at a moon The colour of bamboo. I swam my fractured heart In the South China Sea. I wrote a poem that sweated In the tropical sun. I watched an eagle conjure The swirling sapphire wind. I was subsumed within Kinabalu’s massif. I stood on a far height Of its granite shadow. I absorbed the incense Of a Buddhist temple. I slept eight degrees North of the equator. I levitated above Borneo’s rainforest. I watched Dyak warriors Dance in ochre moonlight. I imbibed warm Tiger Beer In a seedy street café. I saw tropical heat Shiver the horizon.…