In search of the sacred and other poems - Baritugo, Mercedita Racelis- (Manila Far Eastern University, 2004)
In search of the sacred -- Beyond proofs -- Petroglyphs -- The alchemist -- The secret code -- Who owns this butterfly garden? -- Clay -- Obsession -- Ash Wednesday -- Desire -- Wonder -- Ruminations -- Romancing Sandino -- To a stone -- Reality -- Man and infinity -- The habits of sainthood -- Wild May flowers -- There is no oblivion -- Rose's garden -- In the anatomy of failure -- Aftermath -- Diamond -- Deconstructing the mermaid's dream -- Bathsheba bathing -- Mistaking him for she -- Graffiti -- Ghost -- Words -- Elegy for a friend -- A mother's lament -- Daisy -- To a friend, 80 years old -- Miscommunication -- For mother -- Nostalgia -- Knowledge -- Grandmother -- Without memory -- In the house of burning -- In some lucid spaces of amnesia -- Elegy (for Maningning) -- The icon -- How most husbands respond to their wives' menopause -- Gossip -- Human -- Dream child -- Fetus -- Persephone in hades -- Territorial imperative -- I am tired of being my own mother -- Midlife -- Menopause -- Looking into a woman's bric a brac -- The mirror -- Anorexia nervosa -- Like bats -- Astrology -- Leaves -- Collection -- Encounter -- Grass -- Morning bath -- To catch a falling star -- An attempt to re-invent life -- When the sun fetches the moon -- To Elia -- What to do with Ennui -- The twig -- Daphne -- How to become an alien -- Of myths, dream and UFO -- Untitled -- Hansel and Gretel : the witch's version -- The witch -- Prophecy -- Asthma -- Today -- Sculpting water and stones -- The Sculptor -- From the husband's point of view -- An examinee takes the pen -- The violin -- The poet's problem -- A lesson in sculpture -- Advice -- Poetry and pottery -- Why we need some bad poems -- Art -- The artist on his craft -- Counsel -- Aswang -- Witchcraft -- To a comrade -- Helen to Anne Sullivan -- The miracle food supplement -- News -- Sonnet -- Exercise on rhyme and rhythm -- The philosopher's stone.
Keywords: Philippine poetry (English)