An Accident of Universes
You, with your half-beard and your Slovenly button-down thrown over a Bright blue shirt I could never see, You could have been mine. Do you see? I only liked how your skin stretched over
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On Easter
In Jerusalem he walked and absolved the people, this heretic son of a carpenter, and it angered the Temple. With wounded hands and feet; A bloody crown of thorns. Life for blood; Sanctity for
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Cloud Varnish
The weather was nice today. For once, the pebbles in the park were dry and free of inky spots of rain. You once told me rain was like varnish on a cloud and I
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the love songs of turtles
if I were a turtle, maybe I wouldn’t be so sad. turtles write no sad songs, or stories, or poems. turtles sing songs the sea composed before you or I were born. they live
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Paskuhan
And all at once time seems to hasten, under darkened skies and colder days here we are again.The wicker tree stands as it does year after year and night after night the stars of
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Paalis man ako’y di makalilisan, isang kaluluwang hindi makaibis sa katawan hindi lalayo, hindi lalaya, hindi nais lumaya. ─Awit ng Sangkatawan, Rebecca T. Añonuevo Sadyang ito ang tadhana ng ating hiling at daing─ Tayong
Read More »Freed
Rifles laid down, Chins raised,The umpteenth flagwaving in the palace square. A promise to our youthwafting through the air.Fresh ink from parchmentsealed on foreign soil. Old men sighto the old wishthat youth does not
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