“We kept a jarful of keys on a forgotten shelf in the house. What doors they opened, or what they kept forever locked, before they came by accident or chance into our little jar, we never learned.” — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“Trapped in a conspiracy of chance we sit close inside this sardine can on wheels horning the gasfume streets of this dust-tired afternoon. How… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“We say verse is fun in the doing, True, that’s what we’re saying. And if our rhymes now are only limping, why Muse, the… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“We kept a jarful of keys on a forgotten shelf in the house. What doors they opened, or what they kept forever locked, before… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“These boys bent over their food, intense as harmless cubs feeding, rapt with every morsel melting in their mouths—feral rhythm moves their very breath,… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“What feet may reach against the mind’s arrogance soaring wingless to Alpha Centauri light years away, daring the arctic whalepath, piercing a bacterium’s elegant… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“Whatever you see, do not cry. You will grow up, little one, bearer of this vicious bond— anger of your daughters, revenge of your… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“Sour wine laughter song a bagful of wishes my satchel of skin my brittle bones— Chasing the rain The sun at my heels” — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“She battened on a truth she knew I too must own: when what’s at stake is loyalty or love, hers are the true rights.” — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“wind stinging our faces overhead the birds shrieking turn back turn back turn back behind us, look, bright fields, the sea glinting gold! we've… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“She flutters a hand and history breathes—innocence returns, sin ripens on the tree of knowledge, death comes to be.” — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
