about timing, about time.: traveling into the future, as in the philippines [part 1].

11 January 2008

traveling into the future, as in the philippines [part 1].

Signs on Jeepneys that I must remember:

Love God
Fear God

SEX, DRUGS, ALKOHOL

don't get closed to me, get closed to God.

and in case you ever need to ask "Are we going down now?" in Tagalog:

"bababa ba?"

(oh my god I love it, I want to repeat it all day long.)

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these days.

knitting these days / together
with the click
of aluminum needles
illuminated by late night
television--David Letterman,
Night Court, the news--nothing
new to my lola, who'd hardly look up
from the scarf or hat spilling out
of her hands.

tucked in next to her in the bed,
the rhythm of her hands keeping
a steady tick click tick of knitting,
i'd watch the figures on our snowy
television, thinking
if my parents only knew how late
lola let us stay up.

these days i knit / late
in the night, can't stand
television.

i want to know /my hands
are connected
to the same scarf the same
hat that spilled forth from
my lola's hands.

i want to create / the same
warmth of snuggling under
a blanket with her, the same
memory that i can wrap around
my shoulders like the last time
i embraced her

her calling out my niece's name
who was the same age then that i was
living with my lola growing up

maybe i should / teach
my niece the same rhythm
the same tick click tick
the same pintig
of these hands.

about timing, about time.

11 January 2008

traveling into the future, as in the philippines [part 1].

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