By Dennis Aguinaldo
a stingray’s tail dried and mounted near the misty window
your eyebrows meet; lightning from the clouds
millipede crawls from a book chased by a runny pen
on the CCTV, a spider’s strand of light
damselfly tiptoes on the wet rope bridge
Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo works at the Department of Humanities of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. His works recently appeared in Porch Literary Magazine, Pandan Weekly, Better than the Times, and Utriculi.
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