“Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan!”—UP Naming Mahal

 

November 15, 2010
 at the back of mountains thickened by ferns
where the sky is a fat cornea of all-seeing eye.
 

Neither Theophrastes nor Linnaeus know
what happen to those habits, deaths, foresightedness.
 
 The healing powers of stealthy fruits,
the sweetness of undetected roots and
proper ties of the Movement’s earthiness
are in all creation, revelation, revolution.

 
 Truth is lost to the intelligence of 19th IB-PA
what is the most subversive element
 in the matchbox as in the Cosmos –
the rare Mycaranthes leonardoi is phosphorous.
 

Neither Aristotle nor Pliny know
that passion can outlive wicked crossfires.
 

The deathless pollen of mighty flower stays
in Palanan, the Cordilleras and Diliman
with the ever-caring ever-hoping butterfly.