Ian Salvaña

Ian Salvaña finished his Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Political Science and is currently doing his MA in Development Studies at the Ateneo de Davao University. His works have been published or are forthcoming in The Brown Orient, Eunoia Review, Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry, and other journals and anthologies. He is a fellow to the Ateneo National Writers Workshop, the Davao Writers Workshop, and the Ateneo de Davao Summer Writers Workshop.

  • Amihan

    The city only heals if it rains.Calm, still, quiet: an afterthought.Lights will illuminate the battered skins of roads, pedestrian stripeslosing its mundaneness, prayingfor the last sole to press on its body. The vehicles are the firstto go, then stores, leaving empty rooms, empty floors, empty buildings, unreachable from the water. It must be that the…

  • The placenta of evening stars

    After Jim Morrison Children are born navigators.The have crossed torrid wetlands,Slept in tombs full of water,Made love with the darkBefore they open eyes and seeThe mutiny of mundane days,Waiting for the dying Of their own innocence.         They seek manhood,Enlightenment in a gun, as if To bury the young yearsOf questionings – what smallDesires do they…