apsara dancers
they help me step over
the memory of the khmers

in phnom penh i saw one of the best dances in south east asia, the apsara dance....for a while, my mind was taken off tuol sleng, where many of the crimes of the khmers were committed.

john tiong chunghoo

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/travel-cambodia-haiku-memory-of-phnom-penh/