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PHILIPPINES. Five lines of text
about earthquake and flood in
Mindoro. Children drowned and
left hanging in trees. My country
in five lines, no more.
-o-
Balita
PILIPINAS. Limang linya ng teksto
tungkol sa lindol at baha sa Mindoro.
Mga batang nalunod at naiwang
nakabitin sa mga puno. Ang aking
bansa sa limang linya, hindi lalabis.
–o–
These were written at the same time on 21 April 1995.
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Jim Pascual Agustin writes and translates poetry. Sometimes he tries his hand at essays and stories. In 2011 the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House in Manila released BAHA-BAHAGDANG KARUPUKAN (poems in Filipino) and ALIEN TO ANY SKIN (poems in English). The same publisher released his most recent poetry collections SOUND BEFORE WATER and KALMOT NG PUSA SA TAGILIRAN. In 2015 a new poetry collection in English, A THOUSAND EYES was released. His first collection of short stories in Filipino, SANGA SA BASANG LUPA, was released in 2016. UK publisher The Onslaught Press launches his latest poetry collection, WINGS OF SMOKE, worldwide in February 2017.
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Matangmanok 
April 24th, 2009 at 15:49
A read through – again. People’s lives and losses given such little notice in that tragedy.
April 24th, 2009 at 18:24
Thanks for finding this Michael. I’m trying to look back at what I wrote in those early years of being away from home. I thought I had gotten over all that. It is almost like remembering a death in the family. But also very different. I’m babbling again.
March 14th, 2011 at 09:05
[…] poem was posted HERE in 2009. The Filipino version is included in my book Baha-bahagdang […]