Hollowing out in words the spaces of, not loss exactly, but of its shadow these poetic reckonings resonate in the piercing silence of all loss leaves behind. Elegiac, yet distilled, they speak of and from the afterlives of passion and pain and display a confidence and maturity arrived at only after both love and time have strayed.

1. Philippine Poetry (English). 2. Grief ? Poetry. 3. Pain ? Poetry.