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Poetry

After the doctors diagnosed my violences, I guessed I’d die immortal

Poetry

I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife

Interviews

Episode 4 of The Source

Marginalia

Rustom Pujado’s prognostics, signs, and gnosis

Fiction

Nagugustuhan mo palan an ugali ni Polding, ay ngata naman ta si Don Lope pa an saimong pinanugaan na pakakasalan? |
If it’s Polding’s character that you like, why did you pledge to marry Don Lope?

Poetry

you are only a persimmon stranded
on a rowboat sinking, ocean slipping solemn against your wrinkled skin.

Poetry

The firewood was dry, and burned clean and smokeless. A soft orange.

Poetry

Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.

Selections from Essays from a Cottager’s Sketchbook 雅舍小品

Poetry

“dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”

Fiction

Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

Ang babae sa osipon ni Ana T. Calixto |
The woman in Ana T. Calixto’s osipon

Fiction

Hanggang sa maging desperado, sasayaw at mag-aalay ng itlog kay Sta. Clara sa Obando, magdadasal sa iba pang Santa at Birhen, maglalakad nang paluhod sa simbahan ng Quiapo at Baclaran. | Desperation sets in, and they dance and offer eggs to Santa Clara in Obando, walk on their knees inside the Quiapo and Baclaran shrines.

Poetry

Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos |
Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain

Poetry

I am America for the boy who mistrusts my accent.

Poetry

Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

Poetry

The body of wings breeds a body of wings

Poetry

After the doctors diagnosed my violences, I guessed I’d die immortal

Selections from Essays from a Cottager’s Sketchbook 雅舍小品

Poetry

I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife

Poetry

“dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”

Interviews

Episode 4 of The Source

Fiction

Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

Ang babae sa osipon ni Ana T. Calixto |
The woman in Ana T. Calixto’s osipon

Marginalia

Rustom Pujado’s prognostics, signs, and gnosis

Fiction

Hanggang sa maging desperado, sasayaw at mag-aalay ng itlog kay Sta. Clara sa Obando, magdadasal sa iba pang Santa at Birhen, maglalakad nang paluhod sa simbahan ng Quiapo at Baclaran. | Desperation sets in, and they dance and offer eggs to Santa Clara in Obando, walk on their knees inside the Quiapo and Baclaran shrines.

Fiction

Nagugustuhan mo palan an ugali ni Polding, ay ngata naman ta si Don Lope pa an saimong pinanugaan na pakakasalan? |
If it’s Polding’s character that you like, why did you pledge to marry Don Lope?

Poetry

Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos |
Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain

Poetry

you are only a persimmon stranded
on a rowboat sinking, ocean slipping solemn against your wrinkled skin.

Poetry

I am America for the boy who mistrusts my accent.

Poetry

The firewood was dry, and burned clean and smokeless. A soft orange.

Poetry

Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

Poetry

Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.

Poetry

The body of wings breeds a body of wings