The Steam Room
teak walls surroundingin beige and chocolate and copper brickslayered like centuries’ old sedimentstacked like discarded gravestones and there’s thick steamContinue Reading
Category: Poetry
My many attempts to capture a visceral moment in short form.
The Waterfalls
You’ve lodged yourself somewhere deep inside of meso that when I see you, when I think of youI feel aContinue Reading
Ipaglaban
You beat us down when we dared to wander around anywhere outside of “Manila Town” (that place You named and constantly told usContinue Reading
Anything but water
Anything but water: give me booze give me clues give me fried eggs with runny yolks; give me purpose giveContinue Reading
Uncomfortable Comfort
What were you trying to say to me? What words were you speaking with your sharp fingernails trailing up andContinue Reading
Butterflies from Long Ago
I hope the butterflies will remember mewhen I am long gone from here. Maybe they’ll share new secrets withdifferent flowers;Continue Reading
Haiku #91 [Compressed Time]
I count time betweenshadowy sighs and forced grinslike a battle cry
