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31,702 Steps
Thirty-one thousand, seven hundred and two steps more or less we had the same count him striding in front of me, most of the time the cityscape beckoning me to […]
Second Edition
for love and poetry: second edition ‘Your heart’s a maze … your love’s a riddle’ The second edition of #forloveandpoetry not only revisits the first edition which was published in […]
Curatorial Workshop
Transcultural Leadership Summit Zeppelin Universität 12 November 2021 In this back-to-back curatorial workshop, co-curators Kristian Jeff Agustin (Philippines), Yen Ooi (UK & Malaysia), and Martin Vidanes (Philippines) explore the ways […]
Return to Diliman
Recall, then return. Wise trees may change their minds about us, who we truly are away from the crowd, whether all alone or together in an open secret, underneath the […]
The Hermit
2,020 Years
What is, we often ask, real? Is it the slightest thought that moves and shakes the ground or the tangible matter that lays still and fills the empty space? I […]
Lockdown Reading
Despite what threatens between the two of us land-grabbed territories and disputed seas false promises, debt traps, missing antibodies I would have kissed you back, again and again If only […]
Tell me a secret
Tell me a secret. and my lips will touch your ear. like a feather, like a flower, and I will sing you a song. Then your eyes will look at […]
Bark
Sunny eyes and gleaming teeth warm the still empty space in my room. Even in the middle of the night I hear the rumbling from his belly deep almost mimicking […]
Mesa Sa Kwarto
MESA SA KWARTO If ideas are made in the mind, where do they materialise? In any advanced society, the corporeal act of drawing, inscribing, sculpting, and even tasting often takes […]
Made in ASEAN
MADE IN ASEAN: Online Exhibition www.aseanvisionproject.com Who is Southeast Asia made of? We must beg this question of who instead of what, because decades after Southeast Asian countries’ colonial histories the search […]
Hello, eve
No evening is not a night of song as soon as the clock’s bow strikes the strings of my heart. I shall hum the last few lines of our au […]
Note to shelf
But you couldn’t even read my mindeven if I were an open book, so to speak,a conduit for expletives and clichés if I were only, truly, as you imagined For […]
Gibberish
You cannot sing your breath is gushing with water your lungs are pumping gasps instead of gas When love is a cube perfected extremes that stretch straight to the core […]
Quarter Past
Open the windows and let the scarce summer wind conjure figments and fragments distant memories. Remember how we were told to stay indoors from March until May only to let […]
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