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MARNE KILATES
MARNE
S
KRIPTS
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
P I C T U R E S F R O M B A T A N E S • 6
IV. Sailing to Sabtang (con't)
Heirloom Ivatan knives. Alex Baluyot
IV
And so we stretch our sea legs
And inscribe our marine legends
Upon our little memory of beaches.
Neither Argonaut nor historian,
Marauder or migrant among sank
Land bridges between islands
And mainlands, we are only thieves
Shaving small change from the swirling
Commerce of provenance and memory,
The origin that forever eludes us.
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Marne Kilates
(2007-2008; Rev: 2011, 2019)
From the book, Pictures as Poems,
UST Publishing House (2012)
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