Translated from Filipino and Cebuano by Bernard Kean Capinpin
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Translated from Filipino and Cebuano by Bernard Kean Capinpin
Q&A
How do you keep some of yourself for yourself and what is lost in the process? I’ve always been interested in that question and tried to write into it while I was putting this collection together.
INSIGHT
Will someone someday read this and know she was beautiful and good and kind?
POETRY
My toenails churned the dirt, searching for Earth’s weak spots: / places to root.
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