Plainclothes this Saturday under the brusque heat – trees burlesque from shedding, ripping orchestra of motorcycle: this one – too blatant to perform, to shrunken to notice. What if I never reach you?
1.1 Crossing
There is an unrelenting transaction of birds in the surest sky in the surest day. I can hear the rumbling of thunder behind its natal. If when found, discard. It is easier this way unless inclinations are definite: the trance is to come, shorthanded. Consider this day your being spared from.
2. Toll
I remember the identical traverse. It was when I was unsure of my birth. My father had recounted and numbered how many slopes and trundles along the way when homeward is turbulent, angled at such pace which could have given me another face. I have always found it impressive that a person can wait for too long and waste away in hours that seek no relevance when the daily is diminished.
3. Balintawak
You said that behind the marketplace is a dense crowd scouring for loose change. You wanted to supply them all with your adequacy that was rife and deft for sure in the turn of your hand almost a finger-exercise: that is your skillset. It will rain soon but the heat refuses to decline. You thought of the cumbersome bodies washed away by flood, and how at times, you remember them being randomly stacked at your doorstep, eroded by some wave.
3.1 EDSA
Space we have no need for want under a terminal day fully etched like unwanted visage making you remember something that was your flagrant disregard when asked about how your day went, about a miscarriage of justifications, at work when facing absurd hours wishing to break away from that was our common bond – the long and dreaded silence because it made us always question what are we doing? Who are you? What for? Knowing for sure when to being but to end, indeterminate.
4. Familiar curve underneath a vandalized lamppost
In the console you pressing, discarding gravity at some point, managing to draw your way into and submitting to not knowing how to get out of, sealing an immediate sepulcher. We borrowed minutes, ran like fugitives when asked. An external shadow an intrusion so we had to cease for a moment but in the depth of our silence, somehow continued.
5. Entry to your home
Perfumed your garage was with autumn, or vegetation you said was your aunt’s prized possession. That it was my fault I did not turn you off as a switch is meant to be killed from the moment of discovery to dislimn the image and leave everything to study as specimen is meant to be dissected.
6. To go backwards*
The only way home to where you were and I, scattered