If You Were To Dig
Baguio gold and Marcos blood beneath my feet.
Yamashita’s too.
The monsoon rain soften the ground
Soon we will plant beneath the banana leaves
Peace lilies.
Deeper you dig, the worse the soil is.
A layer of old sayote vines,
Rotten fruit, the dust of sawn pine
And retting fern fronds.
Overturn the compost, dig it in.
The graft is hard, dirty, resists the shovel.
Soon we will plant beneath the banana leaves
Peace lilies.
welcome Josh
ReplyDeletea new sticky breeze from the north
and typhoon on the way
Cheers Josh. I can smell it!
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