Parsetreeforestfire Scott Murray a lonely Indian immigrant in

a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid forties

It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy

Using the untimely death of the poet and friend

And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name

But they hate being trapped inside a mirror even more

Parsetreeforestfire Scott Murray a lonely Indian immigrant inparsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the other. Conventionally such a book functions as a way for a person to learn a new language, but it remains to be seen if translation has successfully occurred, or if the book even intends to teach any reader how to speak either language. Instead, if poetry is intense attention to language, then this book can be