Among quite the most striking of the assembled poems has to be “Aerogrammes,” a five-part sequence developed from Leong’s visit from Los Angeles to Sunwui County, Guandong, in 1984.

There was an onward rush as the gates opened.

I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue.

This rare species might, but for the rugose and pileous epidermis and more depressed form, readily be confounded with the preceding.