I lowered into the well—/ consented to living as someone else for a while

“How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy” and “Men of Might”

Fotohane Darkroom empowers kids through photography workshops in southeastern Türkiye.

how must it feel for my mother, watching?

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

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

Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

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

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.

O to be free at last

I am here. I am walking/ as a person, breathing.

can fishbones/ protect us from the sun?

With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from.

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

Episode 4 of The Source

Our guest editor introduces our folio Osipon

Rustom Pujado’s prognostics, signs, and gnosis

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?

A writer contends with the legacy of a difficult, much-hated local woman who was also a giant of Philippine letters.