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Poetry

Illumination

then, when the star-studded skywould brighten our upturned faces,we liked to believe it filledus with real brilliance,gifted down from the layof the galaxy, so...
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Fiction

Thy Fearful Symmetry

She found it in a yard sale and her childhood came back in a rush. She remembered holding one to her eye until the...
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Poetry

Three Threads

For three yearswe were buriedunder these masks. Three years of breathingthrough our eyes, sheddingour days, one after the other. As this thin cloth cut deep lineson...
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Fiction

The Untermensch

Bernard was an Untermensch. He had the “power” to get into accidents. It first manifested when he was ten years old. A bully had...
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Poetry

Water Rondel

Love is what makes music take nature’s shape.Heart singing through the warbler’s throat,Storm clouds curling, calm ripples ‘round a boat,Music is water, its shape...
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Fiction

Beloved

My Beloved Selya, Do you remember the last time we played takipsilim under the ancient acacia tree? I hated playing hide and seek. Takipsilim. The...
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Spotlight on Books

But for the Lovers By Wilfrido Nolledo

Considered a long-lost Filipino classic, Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s novel But for the Lovers finally comes home to the Philippines more than 50 years after...
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Poetry

PRAYING YOUR WILL?

There you go again,Praying for yourCreature comforts.Brain’s drying up,I see,Though summer’sNot been around That long.Seasons haveTheir uses,Did you know.Summer is so thatFlowers can growAnd bees...
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Fiction

Uling

Sir Boyet mentally counted the sacks of uling stacked up on the porch of his nipa hut. 43 sacks. Last week, there were just...
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Chopin’s Valse de L’Adieu

After a year of hesitant whispers, Their mutual nodTo terminate the engagement. Clouds of unknowing Drift over Paris, The syllogism of parting Known only to Maria WodzińskaAnd him.  Perhaps, it...
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Started in 1927, the Philippines Graphic is the longest-running printed magazine of national circulation that provides relevant news and features and promotes Philippine literature.

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