Full afternoon sun

A rose bush has withdrawn itself. The leaves of the baby kamuning crisp despite the shade. I doubt the San Francisco cuttings will make it. All this should be good news for the aloe. 

Elisha asked me if I wanted merienda. I asked her if she wanted to plant some oregano. Showed her where to cut (right above the leaf base) and how (diagonal). Poked holes in the ground with the long bar. Noam planted two while Elisha did around twenty—eight of these at the drip line of the kaimito, easily viewed from the back door.

know—happen

Cura Cento

Pinagmasdan ko sa kanyang tabi
ang bilao, at ang kanyang anino.

Siyam na buwan nang nakukontra
ng mga wakas. Saka lamang nagbukas
ang katiting na dagat sa loob.

Kumusta ka,
hawakan mo ang kulubot kong kamay,
ang iyong Lunggati—

Ang hamog sa hapon, at ang lamig.

All decentering is kind

This resonance as a pattern and mosaic is, by definition, nomadic. Its coordinates hidden in the basement of a house located on a peripheral blight.

As a Filipino (short letters), a movement remains to be seen. How it plays out towards another language. The “provincial” must have known that—not now, not as the real “angel works abound,” extending tentacles to sympathy, and curiosity.

And Babel infects abaca, the source of fiber.

Set my lab

Set my lab for your new lab partner
Treat with ether
We’ve gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain’t kids no more
If you’re ready, if you’re ready
If you’re ready, nengw’ enamabala
Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala
Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala
From the day we arrive on the planet
And, blinking, step into the sun

8 tula

A fully-wound voluntary

Alin sa mga Kamay

Corrugated Lanterns

Long Weekend Denominators

Myrrh

XIV 

XIV XV 

XIV XV XXIX

Nebulizer Duet

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