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Monsoon Season
Poetry as a Lesson in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Sky Over Cairns
Choices
Bisaya Anthology (--2025)

Rain March Along Hibbard Avenue
Stones
The Gentlest City Imagined: An Anthology of Literary Works About Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental - Hugkat Volume 5 (--2024)

There is Too Much Light in This World
Horizon Wound
Poetry as a Lesson in Geography
Cutthroat Journal: Special Issue on Asia (--2024)

Philippines, Proposed Addendum to Definition of
Outline: Roots
How to Begin the Day After Leaving an Eight-to-Five Job
A Final Shape
Philippines Graphic Reader (September 2024)

Lotus-eaters
Last Resort of the Blue and Left Behind
Terrains
Santelmo: Liwanag sa Dilim, Issue 9: The Travel Issue (August 2024)

Wear This Shirt Inside Out
Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, Issue 6: Lives in an Anxious Milieu (28 July 2024)

Most Likely, When the Ground Shook on the 15th of October 2013
Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, Issue 17 (24 November 2023)

Rhinoceros
Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing / Manao Journal of the University of Hawai'i Press (October 2023)

Ecopoetikon Project (September 2023)

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 73: Intervention (September 2023)

Santelmo: Liwanag sa Dilim, Issue 5: The Justice Issue (06 June 2023)

Sands & Coral, 2023 Issue: Pagsubang (27 February 2023)

Buglas Writers Journal, Issue 3: The Ties that Bind and Unbind (28 January 2023)

Likhaan's Dx Machina: Philippines Literature in the Time of COVID-19, Volume 5 (24 January 2023)

Sunday Mornings at the River, 2022 Winter Anthology Issue: I Knew A Girl Who Liked To Drink Plain Indigo Ink (14 December 2022)

PWD Is Top Marathon Finisher, Ascends Into The Skies, Circles The World In 60 Days
Kathang Haka: The Big Book of Fake News (7 December 2022)

2022
Nothing's Too Far
Flower, Proposed Addendum to Definition of
Poem for the Future

MIDLVL Mag, Halloween 2022 Issue: Retail Hell (31 October 2022)

CATipunan Zine, Volume 3 - Gantala Press (1 October 2022)

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 68: Departures (2 September 2022)

Running
Tonight, Stars

Novice Magazine, Issue 4 (29 May 2022)

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 64: Wall (21 March 2022)

100 Pink Poems Para Kay Leni (3 February 2022)

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 63: Boar (25 January 2022)

ALPAS Journal, Issue 5 (17 January 2022)

Ilahás, Issue 1 (2 November 2021)

Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, Issue 4: Queer Writing (16 June 2021)
Anomalous Press' Anomaly, An Online Journal of International Literature and Art, Issue 33 (6 May 2021)

A Key is Turned
Grocery Run
The Shape of Days
Notes on Movements
32 (or the Lockdown Birthday)
A Normal Poem
Apocellipses I
Apocellipses II
Nothing Surprises Me Anymore
Ficus Lyrata Finds a Corner
Water is All That We Can Remember
The Dead Greets Me in the Kitchen
The Dead Follows Me to the Bedroom
Coalescence

Horizon Wound
The Bohol Chronicle (28 March 2021)

Mag-una sa Mata
Pinanlinan: An Anthology of Selected Works from Tagik & Kinalitkalit Writing Competitions (19 March 2021)

Ficus Lyrata Finds a Corner
Home is (Not) Here Poetry Anthology (3 March 2021)
Note: This poem also appears in different version or form in 'Agwat-Hilom', a compilation of literary videos and written works on the COVID-19 pandemic by literary writers from across the Philippine regions

Ma Pulling Weeds
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 58: Other (12 January 2020)

There is Too Much Light in This World
Poetry Grand Prize - Cebu Climate Emergency's 1st Literature and Arts Competition (11 July 2020)

 Four Haikus and a Line for Frontliners
Kasingkasing's Nonrequired Reading in the Time of COVID-19: Alternative Digital Poetry Magazine, Issue 4 (07 May 2020)

 It is Safe Here
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 54: Masks (14 April 2020)

 The Many Uses of a Mask
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 53: Virus (7 March 2020)

 Cleaning the Attic
Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South (5 February 2020)

 Sky Over Cairns
Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South (5 February 2020)

 The Walk Toward Home on a Holiday Season
The Sunday Times Magazine (22 December 2019)

 The Wait at the Doctor's Clinic
The Sunday Times Magazine (10 November 2019)

Guide to Searching
The Sunday Times Magazine (12 May 2019)

 Prognosticating Pantoum
The Sunday Times Magazine (9 December 2018)

Poetry as a Lesson in Geography
ANI: The Philippine Literary Yearbook, Katutubo, vol. 40 (26 October 2018)

We Begin With A Body Not Found
The Kill List Chronicles (27 July 2018)

 Poetry as a Lesson in Relativity
The Sunday Times Magazine (1 July 2018)

 On the Evening an Authoritarian Experienced Synesthesia
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction (May 2018)

Market in Matakana
The Sunday Times Magazine (11 March 2018)

 Poetry as a Lesson in Botany
Sustaining The Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (February 2018)

 Habits
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (8 February 2018)

 Poetry as a Lesson in Values
Bloodlust: Philippine Protest Poetry (From Marcos to Duterte) (31 August 2017)

 Poetry as a Lesson in Dwelling
Bloodlust: Philippine Protest Poetry (From Marcos to Duterte) (31 August 2017)

Poetry as a Lesson in Zoology
ANI: The Philippine Literary Yearbook, Kahayupan: The Animal Kingdom, vol. 39 (23 September 2016) 

 Original Tempest
Verses Typhoon Yolanda: A Storm of Filipino Poets (December 2013)

In the Foothills of Talinis
Cruising: Going Places, Volume 15, Issue 7 (December 2013)

Original Madness
Silliman Journal : The Special Literary Issue Dedicated to Edilberto K. Tiempo and Edith L. Tiempo (November 2013)

How to Make an Accident
Sands and Coral 2013: Celebration (August 2013)

Poetry as a Lesson in History
Slate 2013 (December 2012)  

How to Put Everything at Stake
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (03 July 2012)

How to Identify a Crisis Without Really Trying
Philippines Free Press (29 April 2012)

The Storms Around Us
Montage (2012)

How to Not Write Another Story
Philippines Graphic (27 February 2012)

How to Hate the Apostrophes
Philippines Graphic (27 February 2012)

Cushions
Paper Monster Press, Queer Punk Issue (09 December 2011)

How to Follow Not So Simple Instructions 
Philippines Free Press (26 November 2011)

Response to a Doctor’s Findings
Philippines Graphic (03 October 2011)

Philippines Free Press (10 September 2011)

Ghost
Paper Monster Press, Dream-Pop Issue (24 August 2011)

The Trail to Nagsasa Cove
Philippines Graphic (4 July 2011)

The Church Floor in Siquijor
Philippines Graphic (4 July 2011)

Stones
Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry (02 September 2011)
Philippines Graphic (13 June 2011)

Philippines Free Press (21 May 2011)

Philippines Free Press (26 March 2011)

Traffic
Philippines Free Press (15 May 2010)

To End A Wall
Paper Monster Press (2010)
Dark Blue Southern Seas (2009)

Rain March
Dark Blue Southern Seas (2009)

Salamin
Home Life (2009 August)

The Other End
Dark Blue Southern Seas (2008)



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