Fancy Flight *

K.O. Laking

Communication (2020), COVIDifying Education through the Lens of AwardWinning Educators in a State University in the Philippines (2021), and Albubo festival as a tool to enhance community engagement of Buguias, Benguet residents (2022). As of writing, he has 2 pending studies which are also going to be published in the coming months.

Despite these notable achievements, Sir Joseph admits that like any other researcher, there are various challenges that he encounters in his quest. First on his list is the lack of time. Since he wants to pursue doing researches together with colleagues, there is often a conflict of schedule with the people he wants to work with. Second is the overflow of research interests. There are a lot of research ideas that he wants to pursue on top of his teaching duties.

You came to me in the twilight wearing your twig-like hair We looked at each other and the world started to spin in brown, green, blue, gray and black.

Your breasts, gleaming in the dim twilight calling, inviting, challenging to join you in the fancy fight of wild, wondering bliss.

You capture me in wings of musical flight and tangle me with your warmth of words, their fibers, incandescent light; a night of fancied ecstasy begun.

How lyrical your voice, how bright the tone to contrast the gloomy world where we collide.

Your woven words of nectar they lay like gentle dew upon my breasts. Can something so profoundly impassioned last for long?

Or will these blissful flights of fancy will just become a song?

Although he considers himself as still a budding researcher, his tip to aspiring researchers is to find a mentor or somebody who can be a guide in the research process. He shares that he didn’t have a mentor on his previous endeavors but he recently met a professor who exerted effort in giving feedbacks and suggestions.

Busy in his career as he may seem, Sir Joseph still takes time to breathe by engaging in extra-curricular activities such as playing volleyball and badminton, going on travels, and playing with kids.

Dr. Joseph B. Quinto took his Bachelor in Secondary Education Major in English at Saint Louis University. He took his Master of Arts in English as a Second Language and Doctor of Philosophy in Language Education at the University of the Cordilleras. Currently, he is taking his Doctor of Philosophy in Development Education at Central Luzon State University – Distance Open and Transnational University.

*An Ekphrastic Poem inspired from Fernando Amorsolo’s 1954 Painting titled “Filipina Woman in Mestiza Dress”