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Sugar Dreams
She was finally here. Hong Kong. A place that wasn’t in her bucket list, but life had other plans and threw it her way. From her room on the twenty-fifth floor of East, one of the many chic hotels in Taikoo Shing, she...
TWO FOR PUNGAW (or “melancholy” in Bicolano)
A Filipino Stillness
Not the light in Amorsolo’s canvas but the smile that kindles the frame.
Not in dreams, where I lose you among crocodiles. Your silence, a dead end.
Not during advent. When we descend on the archipelago.
Famished birds buoyed by memories cleansed by storms.
A...
Ashfall
After the blast, the local radio frantically reported “about forty thousand people running for their lives.” Fancy that. Following up on this, I then filed my first news story on the eruption with that “massive evacuation” angle that hit the Daily Star headline...
To Them who Mean the Most
Love Introduced
The sun is caught
Somewhere between your teeth
It must be
When you smile
Cherry blossoms bloom
And rose petals sprout
If not on the ground,
Then at the very least in my stomach
When your eyes crinkle towards me,
The world is still and the sky is gentle
And the lone...
His Manny Pacquiao Punch
The buzz of anticipation is absolutely deafening. Boxing fans have jampacked themselves into the Araneta Coliseum to witness Felix “The Tornado” Abas, currently the WBC Bantamweight, division champion, and Joe Fairchild, the former champion, touch gloves for the second time. The first was...
2 poems
He Thinks Sounds Succumb to Extinction
Perhaps he no longer
gives the same attention
to the sounds that once
fed his senses:
like the inconsolable
sounds of waves through
an empty conch;
the raspy blows produced
when his neighbor
winnows the newly-milled rice,
letting the winds trawl for bran;
the noise of a peddler making
a...
