light attacks before your

life attaches, and sort of

hangs in there - balance

of all things naked and

free as butterflies dance

making gleam meetings

reflect and flicker, deflect

all of which is bitter. don’t

make things harder than

what it is now.

                        laging may

nagbabadyang bagyo, at

namamalagi ang kasiyang

hindi pamamalagi. pagka

gayon lang, ako ay may

pakagyat na palihisan ng

may-lamat nang aawitin

sa sarili:

we’ve been living leaving,

and we’ll be leaving living.