Post by thepoetslizard on Oct 10, 2008 15:53:02 GMT 2
Doris Trinidad has worked for The Manila Times, Focus, Times Journal, and Woman's Home Companion. Her books include two collections of essays, Looking Glass (New Day 1991) and Permutations of Love (Anvil 1996). She lives in Manila.
www.montagemagazine.net/the-gamalinda-familywords-run-in-their-blood
"Presence"
Something happens
to space when you enter
Lines bend
Planes ripple
Angles become kind
When the air holds you
stunned microns whir
a dervish dance
collide in startled circuit
alter the lambency of light
Something happens to time
A dropped beat
aeon unretrieved
Something somewhat sings
Bells, brook, blood
I think all three
There are sunderings
and reconnectings
and flutesounds
in the inner ear
Something happens
when a void implodes
by your entering
Source:
Babaylan, ed. Nick Carbo & Eileen Tabios (aunt lute, 2000)
