I’m beginning to like the word—acclimate. Somehow it hints at being intrepid. There is nothing that one can’t get used to after all, like the coming of the monsoons, for example.
Yet I hate change. I’m not good at it. I dislike being caught surprised and unawares the most. But I’m a good girl so I [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Acclimate
Posted in Narratives of the Mundane, tagged climate, life, time, weather on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Premonitions and Attempts at Containment
Posted in Narratives of the Mundane, Voiced, tagged apathy, peace, private, terror, war on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is war and rotting decay, and lies beyond my line of sight.
But if I stay, within the circle of light the promise of golden sunshine streams through the leaves as though yesterday, today, tomorrow mattered not.
Do I stay within this newfound clearing within the reel of unfolding history?
Do I step out, into the dimness [...]
Growing Up
Posted in Narratives of the Mundane, Voiced, tagged adolescence, adulthood, childhood, Czeslaw Milosz, growing up, happiness, life, life choices, maturity, mistakes, nature, person, personhood on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a revised version of a reaction paper I submitted for my CL30 class, section THU, 1st semester, Academic Year 2008-2009.
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Reverence for nature and childhood innocence is a familiar and perceptible strain in literature, most fervently expressed and celebrated perhaps in the period of romanticism. I learned this in school—how the romanticists freed poetry [...]
In Honor of Things Lost, Irrecoverable
Posted in Narratives of the Mundane, Voiced on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That asphalt road now
as then
bears witness to rain’s assault
on summer. The crimson blooms
of fire trees have fallen,
flowers cast to air
in a gesture, tokens for summer’s funeral.
That poem, lengthy and labored and hastily
written. I remember
the pain, the ease of its inking.
But what was it you said?
Something about fire trees,
and A. Roces Street,
uprooted, clueless, the strange new [...]
Pent Up
Posted in Narratives of the Mundane, Voiced, tagged blooms, depression, flowers, gloom, monsoon, rain, restlessness, seasons, summer, sunshine, tropics, weather on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The night is too cold. The late afternoon shower earlier had turned the dry humidity of the past few days into a chilling cold that took one aback, unprepared. The turning of seasons in the tropics is never gradual like those in the middle latitudes. The dry summer becomes the wet and rainy monsoon in [...]
12th of June
Posted in Ang Saysay ng Nakaraan, His, Her, Story, Voiced, tagged history, independence, june 12, kasaysayan on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Independence Day. It did not pass without notice. Holidays do not determine relevance. It is our capacity to remember and honor. Of course dates and days by themselves have no meaning. It is through the conscious invention and attribution of significance that meaning is created.
Today is Independence Day and I look back to [...]
Overheard Conversations
Posted in Usapang UP, tagged college, peyups, university, university of the philippines, UP on June 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was in the jeepney anxiously mulling over the possible consequences of the klutz in me choosing to make a comeback (I had left my cellphone and school ID at my aunt’s place) the day before classes were to begin when I caught the tail end of a conversation between two men. One looked to be middle-aged while the [...]
Rolling Grass
Posted in Voiced, tagged art, fiction, grass, impressionist, life, medium, perception, reality on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I look at the grass in the distance as the jeepney hums, stalled by an intersection clog up one pleasant Sunday afternoon along the university avenue. I begin to understand the phrase rolling grass. The green field in the distance begins to assume the movement of ripples as the summer wind blows over them in [...]
