instructions for the living
you are cordially invited to kick it w the unseen fridays and sundays 11:30PM GMT
come thru
time and space stack on them selves to allow us to meet you here
You are not time bou somehow you manag said, rapt around ete
Easy tears were fallin makes her seem like in the midst of etern
The lolas of yo and let light sp
I
prelude with belief
und. In both form and in spirit you’ve always been elusive, but ged to tell me about how your death was your awakening. Rapt, you ernity. I keep stillness cause you might say more.
ng from tita’s face last Sunday and I knew it was you. Her dancing she’s not the teary type. It made me wonder, do you still feel tender nal joy?
our lolas are somehow somewhere laughing; together. They burst open pill out––down here we call it the sun. I can touch you after all.
ways
ons as door dimensi
dimensional doorways dimensionless doorways dimensions as doorwaves
can you tea
how to figh I ask you, mothers,
how to ex
what’s it l where are
how did u
we put forward a belief that you’ll meet us at the function
ach me how to care for our daughters
ht with love held in your eyes
xist in all directions
like to know to God u broken how can we bridge healing
u learn to time travel
II in present patience
Our bodies must be per-tuned to hear y
whisper-tune our bodies to hear you our bodies must be whisper-tuned to hear you whisper-tune our bodies to hear you
you are not one to make yourself heard above the noise
e whisyou
still here
QUICK!
SLOWED.
You were so quiet in your hum
ca ll it the su
n
i bet lola olympia’s strut is so sagely please come with your hand-me-downs
mble dignity
III eternal after party in kapwa
lolo’s aches for freedom
the burial locations of eleven
tita’s dark spirit possession
deaths at the printing press
the walking path from pampanga
lola’s large print reader’s digest
our father who art in heaven
mama and papa’s half siblings
the provincial listening room
the people power newspapers
parties at the fairview house
the named and unnamed unborn
disneyland and american dreams
rainy season city floods
the pretend grape farmer of 1989
come get yourself more wrapped in this dimension a
the lineage of schizo phrenia
the
lolo’s
the reason for four letter names
and let’s tell stories of how you got free to bring us whole
the first green card marriage
war
homeland