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  • I have always been fascinated with poetry that traverses the terrains of the physical, natural world, and attendant to the world of experience, of the…


  • for Kuya Kutsinta Every Sunday after mass at my Protestant church, a kuya would shout unto church-comers to buy his kutsinta, sold in a white,…


  • For my grandfather, Tomàs   I only know what I am told. Such as the continents you wish to conquer, charted on maps on a…


  • You and Who Remembers  First light at the district. The avenues barely scorched, and already men and women swarm the streets in their tired suits.…


  • Pony Ride   At the emergency room, trauma and tragedy slip in and out of the door. Here is a carousel of chances, lifeline gliding…


  • Para kay Baby River Nasino   Musmos ka pang ilog, iniluwal sa kasagsagan ng katigangan ng lupa, gutom, karahasan. Naging dakila ka kaya sana tulad…


  • Everybody knows a lungful of water  makes a body sink. Everybody knows    a clenched fist makes a perfect weapon  to bruise & bruise & …


  • He was pumping air into his wife’s lungs when I arrived. She lay on a steel bed,   and I, their grandnephew, appealed to a…


  • NAHIPUGWAT si Angelo. Naigpot nga mibangon ug milingkod sa ngilit sa iyang lantay. Nadakpan na niya ang iyang gininhawa nga mibiya kaniya ganiha. Nihangos siya…


  • PARA PO! Sumigaw ako nang malakas na malakas sa nagmamaneho ng van na sinasakyan ko. Bababa sana ako sa Quezon Avenue ngunit damdam ko nang…