The Time it Takes to Complete a Masterpiece
It’s OK to have a mixed opinion of yourself. All the parts of you that you don’t like right now …
Tag Archives: Irisisms
Like A Soul Now Unfettered
and naked, not by violence to either soul or body, but by the foregone conclusion of something that’s been long …
The Trail of Crumbs out of the Forest
God’s plans may be inscrutable and His ways, mysterious; but our hearts’ desires are a projection of what we are …
The Torch Bears My Fingerprints
To the student activists on the picket line during the 2012 UPLB graduation rites: I used to be one of …
Synesthesia
Not here. Somewhere else. Not a Tuesday night at Amici in The Gardens in the middle of a mad week …
Prelude to a Dream
It’s the bold strokes of tobacco smoke curling through a window half-shut from a starving apartment out into some back …
The Crossover to Miniloc Island
Three rainmakers hung on the wall of different sizes, all of which she disturbed before boarding: first the shortest, then …
Never Doubt
If it is too difficult for it to happen all at once, but still sincerely pursued, the truth will set …
Come Home Every Time You Can
You begin by remembering, how you did it. You walk all the way back to where memory feels less like …
The Reality That Raised Me
I went to Olongapo when I was eighteen I stayed in one of those places you know, anybody who’s been …
