Sound before water - Agustin, Jim Pascual (Manila University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013)
Skin worth having;Jasmin ages -- Girl of four, a scarf,a dog--Don't sneeze,Joey -- You may have a face but no name -- Indira's colors -- Jewels -- How to sell a child door to door -- Light through skin -- Air from another moment -- Imagining crumbs -- This is the scene -- In half-light -- Fist to the chest -- Second layer of scalp;The drunkard -- Emily--Believing is a sad and twisted heart -- In the fringes -- Soil shifting -- Plucked -- This bloody sunset -- Breaking skin -- Round and round -- Murmurs -- Visitors -- Animate,Inanimate -- Missing the details -- When you finally tell me where you are, neither of us will be the same -- How can I like the color red;Threat number 1 -- Collateral damage -- Random thoughts on the Haditha Massacre on Valentine's day -- The blind stealth of drones -- Fragments lodged in intergalactic nightmares--Notes for a strategist #1:Conversations to be discarded -- The emperor's secret pet walrus -- "Operation cast lead" is not the title of a movie -- Three views of an Israeli checkpoint and a missing mother--Mutterings -- How the zebra lost its stripes on the long and circular dash for freedom--Count the blades of grass before they burn the field - -Fire on my back--The air,a burning fever;Traces--Birds will have dominion when I take swallow form--Night driving in fog--Needles missing your spine--Tonight by chance--Narrow path by the river--It isn't mine, never seen it before--The number of bugs--Without a scythe--A photograph that reminded me a photograph--Missed fortune--Sound before water;Sea fireflies of Mindoro--First and last--Morning and the river--Song of the river fool--Not an accounting lesson--These days every time it rains my mother trembles--Moments later--Sea burial to avoid a shrine--The last boat--I never meant to build a house--The sound before water--Parable of the stupid man--Start digging or keep walking--Acknowledgements and others
Keywords: Philippine poetry (English).; Philippine poetry (English) -- Collections