Poetry

I flow from this book you gave in the last of the under fifteen minutes. Me over my head, like a shocked reader of those backward zeroes printed in the purchase receipt: in love with the lola magic over the bridge I couldn’t pull out, play nor call a trick to...

If one looks closely into the night sky, and spot, by chance, these flying balls of fire, a wondrous sight for the naked eye, a heavenly transcendence of one’s earthly desire; a broken space rock’s fallen debris which acquainted with the earth’s atmosphere, blazing through, the speed of unimaginable...

They’re everywhere. When you’re born: 7/24/1997 Age: 20 years old Deadlines: 11:59pm, October 10, 2018 Grades that fluctuate: 94 to 60; 5.0 to 1.0 First salary: P16,000 Damn bills, taxes: P5,000 for electricity??!?! Properties: 1 Relatives: 156 Christmas party giveaways: P50.00 for each child??!?! Speed limit on the highway: Don’t go beyond 100!!! Doctor’s...

Nagpapausok na naman ang mga kapre– ‘Yung mga dambuhalang pabrikang nakatapak sa dating luntiang lote.   Hindi ko man marinig ngunit animo’y umiiyak, Itong bago kong pananim na sinasakal ng lupang bitak-bitak.   Walong gabi’t siyam na umaga na ang nakalipas, Hindi na ako makapaghintay sa pagbukas ng mga dahon...

I lied when I said “I’ll be home soon, don’t you worry about me” I just didn’t want to hear you burst into tears through the receiver for it would also rain down my cheeks under the shadow of my helmet.   I lied when I said “Victory is ours” after two nights and awake-up the only thing that...

Bloodletting Sleeptalker, I wake on bleeding leaves. Banig bitten beneath me, I must’ve said a bad word. My mother anointing her disappointment. I say my sorry, closed my legs, baptized my bed under the rusty hand pump. Prayed over long-deaf stomata, its gone sugars. Then like a good daughter, grounded...