Protest In Philippines

By David Lau

He is for a long time bleating the embassy collection:
(water-resistant cot,
a resurgent stretch of storefronts to dive into,
compadre, col legno, funding the new permits, pleasing
room, murderous rain.

Near-spring night, stars on flat blackboards, essay estate
questions passed person to person.
The lottery window
I turn red past,
hyacinth-lanced dawn.

In green tree talk
the transcriber dons a dark robe, a mirror.

The notebook discovered
the parting sun, magnificent trough, blind
hair on a head
of state, streak-woods
in the winding road atlas—stranded shore.

Pose in flight
covered by weeds, claw hair-rocks,
Pullulation. Push-up. Push-up.
Pestilentia reeds announce—trebly isolated, a closed trio,
the trinity trick-fucked—in a.

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