“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, their strong young teeth chomping, grinding the gristle of meat. So little it takes to pleasure them— they eat what they can get, savoring a fine fillet with equal fervor as the bits stuck to a… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share
“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
