Sampaguita (Utang na Loob)

05 Feb - 22 Feb 2014

Nina Laurel

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• Sampaguita (Utang na Loob)

  05 Feb - 22 Feb 2014

  Nina Laurel

• Wreath of the Islands

  Antares Gomez Bartolome

  Strung up to hang,

  the tender are sent

  to burn in the sun and sweat the night;

  their reach itself a prayer

  for unburdening.

   

  Would-be penitents,

  in ritual complicity,

  deign purcchase

  of a collar oversweet,

  suspiciously white.