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Overdose

CLASS! Pass your assignments to the front.”

Erika stared blankly at her professor. She averted her eyes and looked at the whiteboard. It’s been three months, she thought. Three months of waking up with nightmare visions of hospital contraptions hooked up to a dark figure.

“Sir” Keith died of cancer. The one last professor, who would crack jokes with his students has left the campus empty.

Despite teaching a major subject, Sir Keith’s lectures served as a breather for the class, a place where they could be riotous, but still learn. read more »

Mixing poetry and fashion

WHO SAID fashion can’t go with poetry?

Poet Carlomar Arcangel Daoana, a former UST Center for Creative Writing and Studies junior associate for poetry and Varsitarian associate editor, crosses over to the world of the “fabulous” with his second book, The Fashionista’s Book of Enlightenment (Designed By Words, 2009), a collection of 43 poems that tackle the complexities of couture, passion and loss. This follows his first collection, Marginal Bliss, which was released in 2002. read more »

Panglao

Heaven’s mirror crashes on virgin
ground,—jolting his senses.
She wades through its crystalline fluid and the stars awake,
dancing in intricate synchrony.
The smell of coconuts and salt in the air
resting on her sand-strewn hair.
Beneath the surface, seaweeds sway,
while streaks of color dart back and forth in anxiety —
The giants have returned once more.
He clasps his pale hand over her burnt, brown skin,
“Everything at its own pace,” she calmly says.

I am home.

Mika Rafaela A. Barrios read more »

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