JC Inman #7 Lugaw at Victory, Baguio 2019

Lugaw at Victory, Baguio 2109

Hand on my shoulder

Light, dark, small, full grown

Arthritic fingers like pigeons

Returning home, like snail spirals,

Lined like a receipt, crumpled and discarded

Swept to the street margin

Of the dusty bus terminal.

She asks for a but a fingernail

Of what I have

As if restitution for the imbalance

Of justice in our juxtapose