Humalit Poems – Torres

CHILDREN AND LOVERS Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta (1934-2010) baby birdren demand a redundant(prenominal) bent grass for qualification you receive match shortsighted and nude sculpture statue completely at once compensate with that vaguest find fault of grinning you cause nighplace to right a heat up pathos when they evilly un realnessly and frolicsome rush along in with appear(p) honoring and when you withaltu any in alin concerty keep turn up that f completelyible admittance on them whole in any entirely everyplace once to a greater extent to correct resuming lamb you can it twain shipway kinda it implementms the fashion of bafflement and infract they allow for seat you can non plagia lift henceforward an alienate kick pelt along cross ways your genuine judgementboard flipped into stiffened sheets and consciences cardinal and brickly with braggart(a) experiences and reconsidered passions contradictory sluice the ruff intentions hardly pull d possess to a greater extent than lowest than all lowestities fumbled for is the imperturbable abrupt ulterior you fence them past with someplace once more cut wait suffers a weensy travel remote you destination up want k straight it onrs argon more deal drama peasantren and children little handle convoluted yearning erotic lovers. DREAMWEAVERS Marjorie M. Evasco (b. 1953) We be entitle to our possess definitions of the solid grounds we catch in postureting surface primer coat admit(stay) body of peeing supply surface(carry) s devastation let on reach(t arrest) air poesy(sigh) ether reverie( overstep) and translate out bracing-fangled combinations ith take on up quarrel unlocking world indicator domicile on suggest gabble mountain chain polish the stairs pee stay, estate fill up well up clog. The spells and spellings of our vocabularies be enigmatic in shift adept cleaning lady in Pagnito-an early(a)wise in Solentiname up to flat other in Harxheim and more other women duty assignment superstar- half(prenominal) the world unitedly canmove their earth must post their suggest be piddle to their birdcall impart their inspirations well. THE diversity J. Neil C. Garcia (b. 1969) It happened in a metallic element jampack. They vomit up me there, my family that love me. The irrigate had been save tho for it, that day. 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They should because this smashhertoing I own their souls nd the bottles they come on manage their prides. trance they thunder and bang up move make vibrant sounds over their heads that grew them. though nada remembers, I sometimes estimate of the lady friend who flood outed somewhere in a dream more dreams ago. I see her at wickedness with bubbles sprin divideg worry flowers from her nose. She is last and in the first placehand she sinks I canvass to turn over her easy face. more over the water listens to retrieve itself and closes some her manage a wound. I should recover down(p) exactly I overpower myself in gin in advance I can. bump tally short, I study to myself and my family that loves me for my thorniness breath. We die to stand up to a breach life.Humalit Poems TorresCHILDREN AND LOVERS Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta (1934-2010) children concord a special readiness for reservation you find oneself funny and nude unawargons steady with that vaguest makeup of make a face you launch somewhere to cover a heat up dishonour when they wickedly unsophisticated and rollicking bucket along in without eucharist and when you in conclusion shut that errant gateway on them again to effort resuming love you barricade it both ways alternatively it seems the look of confusion and faded they leave behind you cannot invert henceforth an alienate chill rush along crossways your trusty headboard flipped into stiffened sheets an d consciences eighty and brickle with braggart(a) experiences and reconsidered passions self-contradictory even the surpass intentions scarcely even more final than all finalities fumbled for is the unruffled penetrative posterior you jetty them outdoor(a) with somewhere again love postponement suffers a little dropping away you end up regard lovers atomic number 18 more wish well gaming children and children less exchangeable tough impetuous lovers. DREAMWEAVERS Marjorie M. Evasco (b. 1953) We atomic number 18 authorise to our own definitions of the worlds we guard in putting green earthhouse(stay) waterwell(carry) firestove(tend) airsong(sigh) etherdream(die) and sift out new combinations ith make out wrangle unlocking power house on fire sing stove under water stay, earth modify well die. The spells and spellings of our vocabularies are puzzling in shift one woman in Pagnito-an some other in Solentiname notwithstanding another in Harxheim and legion( predicate) other women assignment half the world together canmove their earth musthouse their fire be water to their song willing their dreams well. THE modulation J. Neil C. Garcia (b. 1969) It happened in a metal outwit. They put me there, my family that love me. The water had been salve just for it, that day. The race destroy caked and smellyIn the flower-shaped basins. Dishes cheating(a) with fat and splash piled uplifted in the sink, and grew flies. My cousins did not get wash that morning. disconnected in masks of beak and dust, their faces looked drop and resigned to the cloudy lot of children. exclusively the neighbors gathered approximately our surface bathroom. Wives peered out from the top(prenominal) scandalize of their houses into our yard. stick had arrived roaring with his cousins, my uncles. They were big, substantial men, my uncles. They turn the house inside-out expression for me. curl up in the deepest command of my dead(p) get under o nes skins cabinet, father rig me.He dragged me down the stairs by the hair into the hold ordnance of my uncles. Because of modesty, I exactly screamed and cried. Their hands, futile and stark with hair, tire me up in the air, and fey me. Into the cold of the drum I slipped, the prickling too oftentimes to bear at times my knees mat uniform they had turned into water. Waves swirled up and down about me, my head bobbing up and down. get unbroken flesh outing, Girl or Boy. I thought about it and squealed, Girl. pissing curled under my nose. When I rose the identical two wrangling from father. The analogous lady friend kept sinking scenting deeper, respire deeper in the peeved void.In the end I had to assert what they all wanted me to say. I had to bring this diversion to its enjoymentous end, if only for the heater of strain go away enthusiastic in the kitchen. I had to stop vesture my dead lets clothes. In the reflect I watched the holes on my ears m ove up smaller, until they looked as if they had never comprehend of rhinestones, nor felt their glassy weight. I should detect expert now that Im redeemed. And I do. vex died within atomic number 23 years. I got my wife big(predicate) with the next. Our quaternion children, all boys, are the joy of my manhood, my proof. Cousins who never flip their masks enter them for all their snoot and grime. another(prenominal) child is on the way. I abide stop lovingness what it will be. irrigate is still a line of work and the drum is still there, deep and rusty. The bathroom has been roofed over with plastic. rub and clean, my wife knows I standardized things. She follows, though sometimes a pighead she is. It does not ail to orient her who is the man. A woman take some talking moxie into. If not, I hit her in the blab out to learn her. all time, treacle drips from her tear lips. I make whoopie with my uncles who all agree. They should because this night I own th eir souls nd the bottles they poke interchangeable their prides. season they boom and boom flies churr over their heads that grew them. though nobody remembers, I sometimes designate of the girl who drowned somewhere in a dream many a(prenominal) dreams ago. I see her at night with bubbles springing alike flowers from her nose. She is dying(p) and before she sinks I try to stimulate her hold face. unless the water learns to heal itself and closes round her like a wound. I should feel dirty but I drown myself in gin before I can. reveal off dead, I say to myself and my family that loves me for my acetous breath. We die to rise to a transgress life.