Visions in verses

Poems
May 26, 2020

Awit para sa along naligaw / sa dagat ng mga tao

batang alon / tumatawid / sa kalsada ng ulan paikot-ikot sa kanal / di makita ang daan walang mapa ang mundo / walang pipigil sa iyo kundi ang sarili mo hahampas ka na lang / sa pader na semento kung

Poems
May 25, 2020

Pudpod na ang tsinelas ko, ngunit hindi ang aking puso

Animnapu’t pitong kilometro ang nilakad ko / para lang makita ka bagtas ang kalsadang kay lapad / ngunit / wala naming laman suot ang pang-itaas na basa / ng pawis / at ulan at minsan, luha / habang kipkip ang

Poems
March 18, 2020

Sulat kay Naty mula kay Bining

About this poem: It’s nanay (my dad’s mom)’s birthday, and after reading Bonifacio’s letter to his beloved, I was inspired to write a poem imagining what my tatay (my dad’s dad) would have wrote for her. I still wonder what

Poems
August 18, 2019

Bondage before breaking

Under the bed of chains where you strapped me in my tattered red pajamas I wail at the sunHowling at the loss of the moon who sang me lullabies before the nightmares. You walkedafloat the floor in flipflops, I stayquietly

Poems
March 10, 2019

Stronger

By the time you losthalf of your legs you will realizeyou have walked a thousand milesaway from your ghoststo a place they won’t follow you for a desert is a paradiseto the one who lives without a shadow and once

Poems
February 9, 2019

Alon

alon sa aking puso, sumayaw ka paikot-ikot hanggang marating mo ang hanggangan ng lupang pangako sa paghalik ng dagat sa durog kong kaluluwa ibabalon ko ang hapdi ng bangag kong pag-asa baka sakaling magising sa tarangkahan ng langit tangay ng