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Rush Hour

How’s life, old buddy Between seventy and eighty, eighty and ninety Perpetually in a hurry Heading for the cemetery Amid emotional poverty Are we racing against time Or the lack of...

Homecoming

The train slowed down. Someone tapped him on the shoulder. A middle-aged lady wearing a double-breasted coat told him his stop was near. He...

Labor group welcomes suspension of cashless toll policy; questions TRB’s “bias toward toll operators”

The NAGKAISA Labor Coalition has welcomed the suspension of the mandatory cashless toll collection system, citing its unfair impact on low-income motorists. “This is a...

At the Seine

Were the ripples at the river Seine My memories, your face will be broken  Into a thousand pieces, each fragment of you Cut into countless shimmers Dancing in...

Tabuc Suba

Cicadas talk to each other in loud, prolonged streaks of staccato bursts. For a few minutes before sunset, the insects make sound and give...

Global human rights abuse tracker spurns government anew for charging activists, civil society groups with financing terrorism

Human Rights Watch—an independent organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world—has criticized Philippine authorities for “filing baseless terrorism financing...

Saint-Paul de Mausole Sonnet After Van Gogh

                                         The painting started out as one crude sketch, lines and proportions silly. All over the scenery, smudge of trees and houses. There was form and there was...

When the Heart Knows

Charito's pace slowed as she neared Barbara's, the renowned restaurant in Intramuros that is next to the centuries-old San Agustin Church. The cobblestone streets...

A King Lear in Cage

Trekking the road to house of aged, those grown feeble, fatuous to outside world. I come as servant to bring that which is longed for to nourish...

After the Ascension

(Short Fiction in the Style of Joaquin Antonio Penalosa’s God’s Diary) When the Cherubim settled down and the fluttering of wings turned into soft rustlings,...