Explore Poems: Love

These days, freedom
means: no shame.

What she calls
your cock rises
at its name, invisible

as wind…

 Just let him go! Honey, who calls a yogi her own?

He’s always indifferent to me, sister, he makes no sense.

Rama, I gave my heart to you alone.
When love takes root, do you just cut it down,
 or, darling, do…

our vow—
if vowless by thirty
then us

was such
a stupid, childish way
to say love.

but love we were…

I have been made anew
like the first hour of sun
after days of rain.
I have kissed the face
of the …

 I was dragged to by my feet,
 memories misled me
with their leavings, an engkanto
 made my native …

 kung saan ako dinala ng aking mga paa,
 latak ng alaalang nililigaw ako
na parang engkanto,
 na parang…

Tumawa ako nang sabihin ng kaibigan ko na ang kabaliktaran ng ‘laslas’ ay ‘salsal.’ Walang tumawa noong…

I laughed when my friend told me ‘laslas’ backward is ‘salsal,’ cutting himself one way, touching himself…

here
near the entrance to the subway
the underground
we stand in each other’s eyes
once lovers
now …

our friendship
is what keeps us whole
love is essential as air

prayer contains desire
to worship is…

Ay, goldo, goldito, goldo
with those sunbathed baby cheeks,
I want to gobble you up in kisses.

Please go…

Ay, goldo, goldito, goldo
con esos cachetitos asoleados,
te quiero engullir a besos.

Anda sigue, coquet…

In love again, I welcome the familiar
high, the dizzying state of detecting
signs around me that the world…

All insects have them yet the luna moth leaves
its mouth and the memory of hunger behind
with its caterpillar…

i . sorrow is the curved ribcage of a beautiful death,

that makes the city look like revelation
because I love you. Just wanted to check in
and see how you…

My phone memory is full
of canvases I have cried in front of—
circles, holes—
Shadows on water.

___…