Poetry Poetry

Joel Toledo's Chiaroscuro is already in my hands. Next I'll be on the hunt for:

The Proxy Eros by Mookie Katigbak.

Somewhere
You are actual. Happen to me there.
-From “As Far as Cho-Fu-Sa”-

If it's true
That we move from one exhaustion to
Another, you are the tenor and the vehicle
Of all I cannot name in the things I do.
-from "The Proxy Eros"-

When I show you how you and I
Have more hunger than we know
What to do with, I am telling you
Goodbye before you know it.
-from "The Telling”

Such heartbreakingly beautiful, beautiful lines.
I am thoroughly enchanted.