Confucius Say
The dreams I can’t recall on waking
Must be shaking their heads if they were
Folk, from not a false universal
Sense of waste that extends to even
The airy nothing that they are – such
As, if the ruthless truth be quoted
From Quixote, we all of us are,
To borrow a necessarily
Highbrow no Hebrew thing, though I have
Never had dreams where my name was not
Cesar Aquino but something else,
Or Cesar Aquino but I was
Someone else, that would have been nightmare,
A German Expressionist 20s
Kino germane to the idea
Of I am as amnesia, when you
Like an idiot savant remember
All, everything except what you were,
If nothing scary compared to when
You seem to recall what you were not.
After Robertus Green
Sky blue.
Ocean blue.
Faraway blue.
Bluebird blue
Rose blue.
Dreamed blue.
Heard blue.
Worn blue.
Ah! but blue
Cheers,
Commandeers
Sierra Madre.
Cesar Ruiz Aquino
Cesar Ruiz Aquino studied and taught at Silliman University. He has written of himself thus: “He has no wife, and Michelle is his adopted daughter.” He has published six poetry collections. He adds that he “lives on the island of Negros where the dream-invading volcano of Kanlaon with arms akimbo glowers at the winds, towers above the lowlands.”
