Philippine Bookshelf--through @yugto.bookclub on Instagram--is featuring my poem "Epiphany at Monster High" as part of their February Invitations to Poetry. I'll post poem in its entirety below because I don't know how to share it from Instagram to Blogger :)
Epiphany at Monster High
I realize
I like to rescue
Dolls
discarded by children
who grow old by forgetting
Love
I dust them, shampoo
their plastic hair
(now a collection of split-ends)
and bathe their bodies
(many scarred by animal teeth)
When I rescue dolls
I revive their ghosts
who now bring me
their language of longings
(fresh fodder to translate
for making new poems)—
I reciprocate
I clean their clothes
or give them new apparel
For one treasured skirt
I apply my inheritance
of Mom’s needle and thread
Most need new shoes
The ghosts cease crying
and masticating hapless tongues
behind scarred stiff cheeks
After sponge baths, smiles surface
from erased grit—most dolls
are made with upturned lips
for they rationalize their existence
as conduits for joy, for Grace
I discover I like to rescue dolls
to rediscover
how I love to rescue Love
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