- 30 -
In Praise of Electronica
With equal parts
care and suspicion,
we wheeled the HDTV
out like a crate of staple grains.
The parking lot was covered
in blood and a million broken electronic parts.
Kindergarten
My daughter shows me
her doodle. A bus, she says.
I rotate the paper
like a wheel and sit down.
It’s a picture
of a phone and several one-
way tickets.
Troubled Sleep Pours In
Feather tips pierce
the pillow, then
my scalp. A gaggle of geese
honks. The moon and the wind
shush everything that breaks this
silence. The sound
of my stretching, included.
ZOSIMO QUIBILAN, JR. won the 2006 Philippine National Book Award for Short Story and the 8th Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award in 2008 for Pagluwas (Going to the City) published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2006. "- 30 -" is the collective title of 30-word poems, one of the author's ongoing writing projects. His poems and stories have appeared in several anthologies in the Philippines and in US-based online literary journals like Kweli Journal, 42opus, verbsap, m.a.g., bewilderingstories.com, among others. He lives in South Pasadena, CA with his wife and three kids.
In Praise of Electronica
With equal parts
care and suspicion,
we wheeled the HDTV
out like a crate of staple grains.
The parking lot was covered
in blood and a million broken electronic parts.
Kindergarten
My daughter shows me
her doodle. A bus, she says.
I rotate the paper
like a wheel and sit down.
It’s a picture
of a phone and several one-
way tickets.
Troubled Sleep Pours In
Feather tips pierce
the pillow, then
my scalp. A gaggle of geese
honks. The moon and the wind
shush everything that breaks this
silence. The sound
of my stretching, included.
ZOSIMO QUIBILAN, JR. won the 2006 Philippine National Book Award for Short Story and the 8th Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award in 2008 for Pagluwas (Going to the City) published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2006. "- 30 -" is the collective title of 30-word poems, one of the author's ongoing writing projects. His poems and stories have appeared in several anthologies in the Philippines and in US-based online literary journals like Kweli Journal, 42opus, verbsap, m.a.g., bewilderingstories.com, among others. He lives in South Pasadena, CA with his wife and three kids.
