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Year: 2019

  • kung bakit laging may patugtog sa SM

    kung papasoksa anumang SM City Mall,bago ang inaasam na lamig ng erkon,tiyak na sasalubong muna ang patugtog. sa loob, walang sulok na tahimik.bawat stall ay may sariling gimik.pana-panahon…

  • kamatis march

    araw-araw siyang nagmamartsasa tapat ng bahay namin nakasampay ang sako sa likuranhabang inuusisa ang aming basurahan sa kung ano mang maglilikassa bagyo ng kanyang gutom boteng pambenta o…

  • Ensemble

    I. Gongs Ceremony Gods will be angryIf gongs have no harmony.Strike it properly. Betrothal Gongs made of copper.But it’s a sincere offer.Marry my daughter. Omen The gong’s an…

  • Candy Keeps An Island Alive

    Every December, my uncle pops rice paper candies in my palm. They barely survive the voyage to mouth. I can’t explain how the heat from my supplicate hands boil its…

  • At Napagod ang Hagdan

    Maya’t maya ang pagdaan mo sa aking mga baytang, Tila isang dambuhalang dumadagan sa katawan. Malimit pang magmadali ang hakbang mong may pagyanig, Na para bang isang lindol at ikaw lang…

  • (hI)Law-as

    i. makamingaw imong baybayon.ang mga lusay sa imong hunasan,ang tambasakan sa imong bakawan,imong paghagunghong taliwa sa akong bilahan. pagaisipon sa gihapon nga bugsay imong dila;sa katuyoman, ang akong…

  • Excavating the Trauma: Notes on the Teng Mangansakan’s Forbidden Memory

    If the emotional is too on-top of the speaking voice, surrendering to a guiding thought an idea, a proposition, a question can pass as urgent. In watching the…

  • The Settler Settles In: Locating a Space for the Settler in Rogelio Braga’s Colon

    What if one flees the enemy or better, pursues him only to find that the enemy is one’s self?  Such is the fate of the post-colonial subject, whether…

  • Entre Medio Del Fin (In the Middle of an End)

    SCENE 1 – EXT. PEACE MURAL/ INT. CAR – DAY  A peace mural is seen from inside a moving car. The view is hazy and we can barely…