When The Grain Is Golden and The Wind Is Chilly Then it is Time To Harvest (Nick Carbo Poems)
Leron-leron sinta, umakyat sa papayaDala-dala'y buslo', sisidlan ng bungaIn a dusty village in Cagayan Valley,Ramon and his father were planting ...
Nick Carbo Poems (13 Poems)
Ang Tunay Na Lalaki Meets Barbie At The Shark Bar (Nick Carbo Poems)
on Mulberry and Spring on a rainy night.Her head sticks out of some woman's tote bagplaced on top of the ...
Little Brown Brother (Nick Carbo Poems)
I've always wanted to play the partof that puckish pubescent Filipino boyin those John Wayne Pacific-War movies.Pepe, Jose, or Juanito ...
Ang tunay na lalaki (The Real Man) Stalks in the Streets of New York (Nick Carbo Poems)
Looking to harvest what makes him happy.The AA meetings have thrownhim into iconoclastic jousts with Titansand Gorgons with glowing snake ...
The Filipino Politician (Nick Carbo Poems)
When he finds his wife in bed with another man--The conservative politician feels an ache in his stomach,remembers the longanisa ...
Ang Tunay Na Lalaki (The Real Man) Is Baffled By Cryptic Messages (Nick Carbo Poems)
He finds on cheap match covers.PLEASE MAKE METASTE LIKE A MANis the first one he reads after lighting upan American ...
Mal Agueros (Nick Carbo Poems)
If you come to Mojacarand peel open an orange full of worms,count how many there are becausethose are the days ...
Running Amok (Nick Carbo Poems)
In the slums of Tondo, people dwellin shacks of cardboard, bits of bamboo,corrugated metal, and a few cement blocks.They come ...
Typhoon Signal No. 1 (Nick Carbo Poems)
This is where the typhoon starts-inside the fourth paragraph,ten city blocks away,where the neurosurgeon halfsLa Celestina, where you occupythe spot ...
Capis Windows (Nick Carbo Poems)
How do you enter that Manilaframe of mind, that wovenmat of noodle house restaurants,that dawn of tapis tasting women,that hankering ...
Ay, Que Dolo! (Nick Carbo Poems)
Dona Josefina has thrown my goatout onto the calle El Fez--Ay! The menu of pain is as bigas a queen-sized ...
Grammarotics (Nick Carbo Poems)
The angle of delight is bestachieved while rubbingthe pluperfect buttonin tiny syllabic circleswhile the glottal stop needsfirm accentual strokesfor copulative ...
Speech Impediments (Nick Carbo Poems)
"I like dappled hats," she saidas she lit the incendiary device.He enjoyed her wet diphthongson her nape, his frequencymodulator, his ...