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Of Science, Of Fate

Frost eyes stare into the layers and layers underneath. Rotate, adjust, rotate, adjust. some eyes are made to look at what’s under miscroscopes and see the dinosaur-old cells within barely human humans.   Cold hands always gloved blue or white or green. Scrape, cut, scrape, cut. Some hands touch the insides, even graze the silver linings of a purpling heart.   Soft...

Wishing war

How hard it is to take a side. Where I live, we are tribes Of rich and poor, and in-betweens. We are tribes of different colors. We are descended from chinks called insects, From older tribes we try to genocide, We are descended from the conqueror-rapists And from the conquered...

Iniisip-isip na Liham sa Kaibigang Makata sa Panahon ng FB (kay bay noel )

Kaibigan,   Petmalung lodi ka na dapat ngayon, paalala lang Baka kasi nirarayuma na yang akay-akay mong salita Sa taludtod; apdeyt apdeyt din pag may taym.   Wag na wag kang pupuslit ng kakosa, katropa, karantso, Baka walang makaintindi: patok ang paps at repa. Mala-wattpad ang peg ng drama ng saknong   Kung...

Astronomy

We peer furtively at smiles, bent wrists and it smacks of mortality. We imagine—nebulae in the irises of a stranger, like they bear stories waiting for the optimum mass of hydrogen, us counting on fusion. The wish to witness the immortal is a prayer written by the finite. A folly—we are...

POETRY: “Leaves” by Marra PL. Lanot

ARCHIVE — See the leaves turn green / To yellow to orange / To red   rust   brown

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GUERILLA DOWNPOUR

There is no warning— the sky, a sudden insurgent, opens with                     guerrilla downpour. Torrential rain, an unrelenting witness, assaults the fragile spines of trees and the quiet bones of houses. Water...

My only sin

Nothing in my garden of chrysanthemum can make me smile not the clutch of winged Monarchs perched on my rosals, neither fishbones nor the trees I had long since abandoned the...

A Study on Four Artists

I. Van Gogh’s Patch of Flowers Flaming red, they gleam in the sunlight of Arles,The poppies in summer strewn along the paths.The artist shuffles by,...

TANAGÀ

Gipit Kapag kawalang-wala, Nandiyan mayâ’t mayâ; Pagtanggap ng biyaya, Wari mo’y nagsabula. Sino? Nang ihain ang dalág, Nagsipasok ang lahat; Ay, sinong maghuhugas? Isa-isang lumabas. Bugaw Iyon bang batang-bata At tiyak na sariwa? O iyong dalubhasa Ngunit medyo...