“Ode to Lakapati”
“Lakapati, pakanin mo yaring alipin mo; huwag mong gutumin.” “Lakapati, feed thy servant; let him not hunger.” — ancient supplication, once proclaimed before
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“Ghazal for Girl”
when my mother says I am a universe in the shape of a girl it is to say I inherit her chemical tears a moon-sad girl star-blossoms sprout from my eyes perfumed black holes I swallow dark matter