back in Balibago,
bl ist er ing
Sunday,
a k
s n i n t r
g t h e s eet s;
&
assembling
jeepney
fumes
like
a l o s t
lepidopterist,
I
scan for you
kaibigan –
every starving Jollibee
every worn-
out
watermelon stall
every chicken-roast
roost -
you don’t feature
on the radar.
back in Balibago
burnt-out and
burning.
find
Uncle Red Horse
&
we talk ‘til dawn,
listening to bading
sing
&
dying of
you.
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This post was written by
Vaughan Rapatahana – who has written 12 post/s on emanilapoetry.
About: Vaughan Rapatahana - New Zealand Maori. Live in Hong Kong. Wife is from Pampanga., where we have a home in Santo Tomas. Published in several countries e.g. Aotearoa-New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines, Australia, U.K, USA, India, France and so on. Two completely separate poetry collections published in November, 2011 - china as kafka (Kilmog Press, Dunedin, Aotearoa) and Home Away Elsewhere (Proverse Press, Hong Kong). Very important book English Language as Hydra due mid-June, 2012 - link as here: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847697493
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I pagpa human hin kaibigan.
This poem should read ‘snaking the streets’ and look like that!
Salamat po
Vaughan Rapatahana
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