Here’s a list of all my poems that are available online, whose links are collected over many years of blogging on several different sites.
Like Sleep Paralysis, but Six Months Long
When Safety is Foreign and Calamity is Home
Minutes to Midnight at the Subterranean
What the End Sometimes Looks like
All the Festering Unpretty Truths
Pendulum on Nothing but Gravity
Of Cosmic Chasms and Second Chances
The Love that is Comfort X The Love that is Growth
The Butterflies Beat me into Submission
The Last Hundred Minutes Before Light Breaks
Blind, But For My Intuition Who Bid Me Don’t Resist
Catching the Sunrise from the Ruins
Preoccupied / Hazel Eyed / Archetype.
The Art of Drowning in a Half-Empty Glass of Prosecco
Pandora’s ̶B̶o̶x̶ Search Engine
The Journey is Not Linear and Destiny is a Sham
Notre Dame Cathedral is on Fire
Warning: You’re about to hate me.
Privilege is a Tarnished Heirloom
Chrysalis
*published in Radical, 2019
Some Questions are a Route to Ashes
If I Go Missing, Look Here First
Benevolence ↯ Omnipotence
*published in Harpy Hybrid Review, 2020
The Place between Conquest and Surrender
You Shine with the Light you Permit
For the Half Past, the Brushed Past
Missed the Bus for the Fourth Time
Of Stepmotherhood and Loud, White Walls
Macramé
*published in CultureCult Magazine, 2019
Forever / At the Five-Year Mark
See you at Seafood City
*published in Longing for Home, 2018
Ex Libris
*published in CultureCult Magazine, 2019
{x|f'(x) does not exist}
*published in The Broken Cassette, 2018
Bus through Dubuque, IA
*published in Barren Magazine, 2018
Double Shadow
*published in The Broken Cassette, 2018
Apartment for Rent
*published in The Brown Orient, 2018
Across Louisville
*published in Harpy Hybrid Review, 2020
Poison of Choice
*published in Harbinger Asylum, 2018
“Shoot the Vagina”
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2018
The Whispered Desert of Almosts
*published in Former People, 2018
Being Here
*published in Harbinger Asylum, 2018
The Design in which we Intertwine
*published in Numidia’s Wordsmith, 2018
December in Cambridge
*published in Numidia’s Wordsmith, 2018
Saudade for Starry Nights and Ivy
*published in The Brown Orient, 2018
Two Parts Ocean, One Part Rage
En Route to “No Blue Memories”
“Black Friday might affect these hours.” —Google
*published in the International Journal of Modern Poetry, 2018
Young Woman at the Met Cloisters, NYC
The Waterfall I Hear When I Sleep
*published in Petrichor in Print, 2018
My Second City
*published in Inquietudes, 2018
Serendipitous, Like Double Exposure Photographs
Nights of Tokhang
*published in Bosphorus Review, 2018
Complex Fractions
*published in the International Journal of Modern Poetry, 2018
Pilgrim for a Day
*published in Credo Espoir, 2018
The Place Where All The Important Questions Gather
*published in Numidia’s Wordsmith, 2018
*published in A Gypsy’s Library, 2018
Lines, then Colors, then Shadings and Shadows
Connoisseuse
*published in Numidia’s Wordsmith, 2018
The Nights of Turntables and Tequila
You are All the Reasons you Need to Continue
4th of July 2017, Chicago
*published in Bosphorus Review, 2018
The Foreign Melody Stuck on my Lips
The Heart of Impulse is Gravity
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
Nimbus Theater
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
Wicker Park / Friday / Past Midnight
Abstract Sky in #8f3d4b
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
The Young and Eccentric Sun
*published in Radical, 2018
Ajar
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
Spare me your Righteous Hypotheticals
The Nautical Miles to Home
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
Beacon
*published in Advaitam Speaks Literary Journal, 2017
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
Broken Mirror
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
Righteous Indignation and her Long, Dark Hair
*published in Unlikely Stories Mark V, 2017
*published in Praxis Magazine, 2018
The Night Trumpcare Passed in Congress
Rain Hypnosis
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
No Help in Sight for 33 Miles
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
The Sun Rises on Rapid City, 4/22
*published in Ancient Paths Literary Magazine, 2018
Outcast of my Own Skin
*published in Anti-Heroin Chic, 2017
Springtime in the South Side
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
Mizuage (水揚げ)
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
The Prosaic Rorschach
*published in Corvus Review, 2017
Day 41
*published in The Paragon Journal, 2017
At the Seams
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
Some Colors only Reappear when Appealed to
Exponents and Ephemera
*published in Creu, 2017
Daughter of the Diaspora
*published in Longing for Home, 2018
Chance, and the Trajectory of Light
*published in Creu, 2017
Scholar of Metaphors Curating Scripture
Finding Spring
*published in Radical, 2019
To Arrive, To Occupy
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2018
Self-Discovery is a Tree-Lined Winding Path
Woman, Ground Zero
*published in Anti-Heroin Chic, 2017
The Physics of Shadows
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
A View of the Sun from Underwater
*published in Rigorous Magazine, 2017
The Lack of Signs at Road’s End
From Man to Feeling to Symbol to Dust
Broken Alabaster
*published in Anapest Journal, 2017
It’s No Longer About The Chase
Chaste Octaves
*published in Spillwords Press, 2017
Estranged Children of Storms
*published in Anapest Journal, 2017
Phoenix Sighting
*published in Praxis Magazine, 2018
Breaths of Shadows
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
*published in Fearsome Critters, 2019
Watching Ships
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
The Last Rendezvous
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
Permission To Be Larger Than Life
Retiring the Geisha
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
Sacred Message, Rough Translation
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
*published in Fearsome Critters, 2018
Heartblur
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
Everyday Iridescence
*published in Petrichor in Print, 2018
Graffiti Dancing to a Heartbeat
Turning Stones at Low Tide
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
Housewife, Half-Empty
*published in Rag Zine, 2018
Impunity is Illusion
*published in Fearsome Critters, 2019
*published in Radical, 2020
Devotion, Illumination
*published in Envision Arts Magazine, 2018
The Riots Against Forgetting
*published in Unlikely Stories Mark V, 2017
Of Plagues and Other Dark Portents
Sienna Red, Petals on Concrete
*published in Petrichor in Print, 2018
Just Another Fallen Leaf
*published in Anti-Heroin Chic, 2017
Second Wanderlust
*published in Dragonfly Magazine, 2020
Why Poets Need To Travel
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
*published in Riddled with Arrows, 2018
Art Installation, Steel and Natural Light
Slow Dancing with San Francisco
*published in Spillwords Press, 2017
PS. Now Look at the Stars
*published in Spillwords Press, 2017
Verses for the Early Sunset
*published in CultureCult Magazine, 2019
Southbound on the I-90 at Day’s End
The Sea is a Different Color Elsewhere
Mermaid Heart
*published in Radical, 2018
Equinox
*published in Forever Journal, Poetic Matrix Press, 2017
Despite the Stars Reflected on the River
Ars Amatoria and Passion Tea
*published in Best Emerging Poets in Illinois, 2017
Mellow your Infatuation with the Sky
Ballast
*published in Forever Journal, Poetic Matrix Press, 2017
Strychnine at the Bottom of the Decanter
The Torn Pages Won’t Be Missed
We All Just Need A Little Rain
The more I hold it to the light
Resilience
*published in Credo Espoir, 2018
Enkindling the Astronomer
*published in Credo Espoir, 2018
The Horizon through Bonfire Haze
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2019
Pan, Before He Could Fly
*published in Bold + Italic, 2019
Boldly Drawn Shadows Blurring Past
I Stand With You, Under The Colors
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2019
Claustrophobia
*published in Rag Zine, 2018
Seasonal Ambrosia
*published in Radical, 2019
Trauma is a Shallow Grave
*published in Exhume Literary Magazine, 2018
Azure and Softly Spoken
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
The Choice to Remain in Disrepair
*published in Memoryhouse Magazine, 2017
Mapagkupkop na Dilim sa Saliw ng mga Tala
The Soul’s Changing of the Guards
*published in Advaitam Speaks Literary Journal, 2017
Tricks of Transcendence
*published in Forever Journal, Poetic Matrix Press, 2017
The Vagrants Inside My Head
*published in CultureCult Magazine, 2019
No Bolder Statement than “I Survived”
A Habit of Crafting Suns
*published in Rag Zine, 2018
Salt and Aquamarine
*published in Forever Journal, Poetic Matrix Press, 2017
Soul Arson
*published in Memoryhouse Magazine, 2017
Self-Love in the Pitch Black
*published in Rag Zine, 2018
Bequests from the Departed Light
*published in Forever Journal, Poetic Matrix Press, 2017
The Queue for Luggage at the Terminal
Yes, you can ask about the burn marks.
Speak And It Shall Be Dawn
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2018
A Skillet of Suns and Oceans
*published in Rust Belt Chicago, 2017
Hints of Honey the Color of Sunset
That Hazy Filter on your Favorite Photograph
An Artificial Silence, as in Stillness in a Snow Globe
Steeped in Grace, and Counting
Worshipping at the Ruins of her Temple
*published in Prachya Review, 2018
And Evolve to the Cadence of Spring
16 Silences
*published in Journal of Modern Poetry 19: The Poetry of Protest, 2016
Remembering
*published in Advaitam Speaks Literary Journal, 2017
Hands over the Atlantic
*published in Unlikely Stories Mark V, 2017
On the Day the Warnings Stop Coming
Postpartum
*published in The Perch, 2017
Softened by Shadows, Dusted in Gold
*published in A Walk with Nature, 2018
They Signed their Fake Names in Cheap Ink
*published in Harbinger Asylum, 2018
Restoring a Stradivarius
*exhibited at Women Speak, 2019
Shades of Fall
*published in CultureCult Magazine, 2019
A Trail of Ash from Sitio Han-ayan
*published in Journal of Modern Poetry 19: The Poetry of Protest, 2016
Still Life, Charcoal
*published in The Blue Nib, 2017
I Invoke You, Divine Inspiration
Sought After, City Not Abandoned
Spare Kinder Words for the Faint-Hearted
What the Moon Promised the Firelight
*published in Anapest Journal, 2017
The Place You Look When Something Goes Missing
A View of the Future from a Tightrope
All the Chances you were Meant to Miss
*published in Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love, 2018
Don’t Get Stranded on that Frozen Road
Suburban Soliloquy
*published in Petrichor in Print, 2018
Red Wine Stains on the Edges of Things
*published in Numidia’s Wordsmith, 2018
Though My Shield is Cracked and My Armor Sundered
*published in The Voices Project, 2016
Our Portrait in Gentle Brushstrokes
On the Banks of the Rubicon at Dawn
*published in Credo Espoir, 2018
If My Marching Shoes Still Fit
Words Reflect off Glass into Symbols
Asymmetrical Hummingbird
*published in Anapest Journal, 2017
Among the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Riddles
Woolen Skies and Psychedelic Sheep
The Epilogue of The Girlfriends Show
The Last Two Hours of Daylight
A Trade for your Album of Selfies
*published in S/tick: Feminists on Guard, 2015
To the Tune of the Gossamer Light
The Taste of Rain and Scent of Thunder
Magdalene
*published in Credo Espoir, 2018
Silhouettes from a More Intricate Light
*published in Riddled with Arrows, 2018
“Woman is by nature a shaman.” — Chukchee Proverb
Solar Heiress, Lunar Bride
*published in Praxis Magazine, 2018
One Child Survived the Village Purge
On the Anniversary of the Inquisition
Persephone in Gucci Sandals
*published in Petrichor in Print, 2018
A Love to Get up and Go to Work for
Just like the Way we Used to Pass Notes in Class
The Road, Where Love Stories are Baked into the Asphalt
A Path For Faith To Burn Through
Like Russian Ballet Under Jamaican Rain
Before Mythology Gave Them Names
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2016
The Disease was Never the Cure
Signed, Lois Lane
*published in The Good Men Project, 2017
It’s not Over for the Moth Until it Burns
A Lifetime Supply of Blank Pages and White Canvas
The Past Lives of Stars
*published in Journal of Modern Poetry 20: The Poetry Writer’s Guide to the Galaxy, 2017
Excerpts from Emigrant Correspondence
Silken and Mauve
*published in Spillwords Press, 2018
Set against a Leonid Afremov Backdrop
Every Winter is Somebody’s First Winter
As in the Vessel where they Age the Wine
The Soul of Winter is Introspection
If God was a Poet
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
The Bouquet was Still Fresh the Next Morning
Shining in the Window and Dreaming Away
Between the Commotion and the Void
Pain Becomes Parable
*published in Radical, 2018
The Worst Demons Are The Ones We Need
The Color of the Ocean after a Storm
Fireworks Over Downtown Chicago
From Dream to Reality and Back
Just Wake Me When The Next Chapter Begins
At the Corner of Maria Clara and Dimasalang
*published in Anak Sastra: Stories for Southeast Asia, 2015
Fragment of the Splintered Sun
Sleepwalking on Session Road
*published in Zau Literary Magazine, 2016
Facing It ≠ Putting Your Heart In It
Wind in the Tunnel and the Light at the End
Please Surrender your Cupid Arrows for Inspection
I Love You from the Bottom of My Hard Drive
Through Amazon Rain and Las Vegas Glitter
With Your Permission
*published in Anti-Heroin Chic, 2017
Moon Spell
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
Love Me Vintage
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2016
*published in Prachya Review, 2018
A Walk on Pont des Arts
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2016
Skinny Dipping in Cassiopeia
*published in Journal of Modern Poetry 18: The Official Poets’ Guide to Peace, 2015
Where the Light Hits the Water
*published in Spillwords Press, 2018
Runaway Siren Come Home
*published in the 365 Wonders 2018 Planner
*published in Radical, 2018
The Postcard Stops at Seven Places
For the Love of Puppies and Grape Kool Aid
I Know Where the Bodies are Buried
Unfinished Epitaph
*published in Anti-Heroin Chic, 2017
Please Don’t Stop Playing This Symphony
The Golden Mean
*published in A Walk with Nature, 2018
Stay for the Fireworks
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2018
The Distortion may be Part of the Message
The Trouble with Willful Forgetting
Details that the Light might have Missed
*published in Kalyani Magazine, 2014
As with the Sculptor Freeing Lovers from their Marble Prison
Belated Thoughts on Venus Transit
The tenant left. But he brought his keys.
The Gallery of Impressionist Paintings
The Way Gravity Choreographs the Fall
Duplicating Light Through Mirrors
Through an Open Window at the Renaissance
The Faint Pulse
*published in Radical, 2018
The Rewriting of Night by Sunrise
Your Love Sounds Like Pages Turning
Of Converging Lines and Vanishing Points
The Language That Your Soul Thinks In
Everybody has a Peninsula Manila story.
Passion by Mandelbrot
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2016
The Dilation of Time as in Dreams
The Reconnaissance Mission Has Been Compromised
The Bellini was Served in a Klein Bottle
“…so then they are no longer two…”
Peaches
*published in Shaking the Sheets, 2018
Memories of Station One
*published in Anak Sastra: Stories for Southeast Asia, 2015
Think Wrinkles, Gray Hair, Grandchildren
Scribbled with a Maybelline Lip Liner on a Thomas Lee Pillowcase
Prelude to Dream
*published in Sahitya Anand, 2018
And This Must Be What All Those Poets Are Talking About
*published in Numidia’s Wordsmith, 2018
The Crossover to Miniloc Island
*published in Anak Sastra: Stories for Southeast Asia, 2015
Dreaming in Black and White, Waking up
If They Ask You Why We Did It, Tell Them
Love isn’t Always Written in Code
The Line Beyond Which The Unknown Begins
The Yellow Brick Road out of Wonderland
The Boss Fight in the Video Game
The Decryption Key Can’t Be Used Twice
*published in Kalyani Magazine, 2014
Through Hellfire and Brimstone
The All That Love Has Conquered
The Evening Summer and I Traded Places
*published in Off the Coast, Resolute Bear Press, 2015
Come Home Every Time You Can
*published in Indian River Review, 2018
The Walls are Asking to be Torn Down
Playing the What-If Game in a Blissful Place
The Way From The Crash Site To The Well
My Favorite Miracle
*published in Prachya Review, 2018
On A Night Like This
*published in Nexxus: Take it to the Street Poetry Magazine, 2012
Six-Lane Catwalk
*published in Journal of Modern Poetry 17, Chicago Poetry Press, 2014
Natural Death
*published in Nexxus: Take it to the Street Poetry Magazine, 2012
The Footage that Didn’t Make the Movie
Love, as an Interruption of Nature
Morning Agenda: Undo Yesterday
I’m Only a Mirror of What I See
Separate the Good from the Bad
Through the Glass, Gracefully
*published in A Gypsy’s Library, 2018
Marked by the Serpent
*published in Fearsome Critters, 2019
Lovable at First Sight
*exhibited at Women Speak, 2019
The View from the Fifteenth Floor
Light Through Orange Murano Glass
Ardent Streetscape
*published in the Make It Makati campaign, 2012
I Didn’t Fall in Love with You
And I Say to Myself, “What a Wonderful World…”
Darkness that the Blind are Familiar to
Lunar Eclipse
*published in Nexxus: Take it to the Street Poetry Magazine, 2012
Among the City’s Bright Lights
*published in The Voices Project, 2016
2nd through 11th
*published in Mad Swirl, 2011
Hers
*published in The Philippines Graphic, 2016
When the Answer is Only Four Days Away
If I Could Ask God One Question
Afterthoughts on a Long-Overdue Phone Call
So
*published in Poetic License at Morning Erection, 2011
Sometimes Silence
*published in Exercise Bowler Literary Review, 2010
How Long I Loved You
*published in e.ratio Postmodern Poetry, 2011
I Found You
*published in Decanto Magazine, Masque Publishing, 2011
The Greatest Heartbreak of All
Emergency Dinner With My Secret Keeper
If He Took the Time to Put it into Words
Why Can’t We Choose Who We Love?
When I Said, ‘Make Love to Me’
I’m calling this morning because
Use Me
*published in Honoring Poetic Society Magazine, 2010
Two Female Poets Talking in a Café
Curiosity for Destruction
*published in Exercise Bowler Literary Review, 2010
Distance Formula on an Oblique Spheroid
Between the Moon and a Montblanc Fountain Pen
Mind Sex
*published in Poetic License at Morning Erection, 2011
Until I Fell in Love with a Poet
Spare the More Celestial Things
At the Root of My Writer’s Block
Ravings and Ramblings of a Topophiliac
And When I Tell You I Love You
A Different Name to Call My Loneliness
Text-Back to a Millionaire’s Daughter
On a Cab along Dela Rosa Street
I dropped my pen. I hope it still works.
The Credence of My Soul’s Undoing
I Overheard Sandra Telling June
Let’s Fall in Love this Summer
Every Breathless Ticking Moment
The Kind of Woman I Want My Daughter to Be
Pipe Dreams and the Most Impossible Thing
I Want You to Tell My Heart that it’s OK
Walang Pinag-ibang Pasko, 2009
Countdown to California Starts Today
Let Yourself Go
*published in Decanto Magazine, Masque Publishing, 2011
Fearless
*published in Mad Swirl, 2010
*published in Haggard and Halloo Publications, 2010
La Bella Figura
*published in Decanto Magazine, Masque Publishing, 2011
Poison and Daggers
*published in Decanto Magazine, Masque Publishing, 2011
Life Metaphors on the 6 a.m. Train
*published in Anak Sastra: Stories for Southeast Asia, 2015
Walking Around Towards Greenbelt 3
8pm, 5F B6 Bonifacio High Street
Every Breath I Take (Literally)
Friendship, Not the Cliched Version
My High School Best (Non)Friend
28th Floor West Tower Philippine Stock Exchange Center
Emergency Exit Parachute Sisters
Standing on the Threshold of the Rest of My Life
Mas Mahirap Intindhin Kesa sa Inggit
Aris, Jemma, Jing, Iris Forever
Tayutay sa mga Bagay na Pansamantala
I’m so in Love. And so it Goes…
Hindi Dapat Mag-usap Kapag Parehong Sarado ang Isip
This is who I am. That is the trash can.
First File on Brand-New Laptop
Pangungumpisal ng Solterang Naglalakad sa Sunken Garden a las Nueve y Media ng Gabi
Rampant & Golden 
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