T. De Los Reyes is a poet, designer, and author of the chapbooks And Yet Held and Woeman. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she received First Place in Filipino Poetry in the Maningning Miclat Poetry Awards. She lives in Manila.

Gargantuan

by T. De Los Reyes

It was a disaster on a gargantuan scale. I fell in love
with wonderment and have become as transparent
as a bougainvillea leaf. Here: sesame seeds embedded
in a cookie. Here: the soft center of a sunflower. Here:

the tiniest mole on your earlobe you didn’t even know
existed until I kissed it. I have nothing to offer the world.
Meanwhile, moon crescents indent my pillow and outside
an old man with no teeth is selling pineapples. Who knows
People on couch
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