Tag: family
member name: Emeniano Acain Somoza Jr.
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October 21, 2007 05:31 AM EDT --
[Part 1: The Shrine]
My mother was a religious zealot and an artful seamstress. I didn’t have much choice except to prepare myself for fashionable sainthood.
From the time I knew . . . more
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October 06, 2006 11:15 AM EDT --
Lying in a tent
across a murmuring stream
I stole a moonbeam.
more
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October 20, 2007 05:27 AM EDT --
My mother is building a house on an island I knew she once loathed. Now she tells me, without fail on each of our weekly phone conversations, she envisions it to be our ancestral home.
She says she . . . more
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January 18, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
This room I have known
For three years is torn. Now
An inexorable pit of silence. Only
They can feel that. You
And I have no patience
To bear the burden of coexistence. Only
They can better take . . . more
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October 10, 2006 08:49 AM EDT --
And then there was that hunger other than the one which at regular intervals bored holes through the linings of our stomachs.
It was the kind that kept us together from the very first night we literally . . . more
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October 19, 2006 05:37 AM EDT --
The Shrine
My mother is building a house on an island I knew she once loathed. Now she tells me, without fail on each of our weekly phone conversations, she envisions it to be our ancestral home.
She . . . more
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October 08, 2006 01:11 AM EDT --
Now as the leader of the keeners drew her lungs out for the final bravura, mother pulled out her pristine handkerchief and, in the middle of that sonata, she blew her nose with a resounding honk, making . . . more
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October 27, 2006 02:15 AM EDT --
I come -
like the breeze
that guides the boatman
to his shore;
like a pebble
on the sand
that thrills the innocent heir
to the world - the child;
like the leaves
whispering . . . more
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October 10, 2006 12:41 AM EDT --
I know the magnitude
of the sorrows
of some unwanted stuff
silent in their forsaken corners
praying for the gods
to save them
from the rusts of desuetude.
"You cast us off
into the pit
of oblivion . . . more
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November 30, 2006 09:28 AM EST --
I wish I was Rachael Ray. You know, a smart ass in a swanky studio set who gets to hobnob with some of the most important personages on TV. You can rant and rave, be a raspy kook or, cook a "Pizz-O" for . . . more
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January 14, 2007 08:57 AM EST --
1. I read minds.
2. I mind what you read.
3. I am a 5 ft.-7 in. leap of faith for all your religious baggages.
4. I am an abominable 145 pounds frame of hard-to-miss sarcasms.
5. I am an advocate . . . more
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November 03, 2006 01:16 AM EST --
I.
Where I come from, it was easy to believe in what neighbors said because we trusted each other enough. There was a shared understanding, a kinship of some sort that one was there for the other – . . . more
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January 17, 2007 10:27 AM EST --
You know you have weighted, err, waited more than enough. So you decide to get yourself started on some weight loss programs and regimens. In all likelihood you would draft yourself with the ones that . . . more
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January 16, 2007 02:02 AM EST --
"I told you to keep an eye on your brother. “ I overheard my mother whisper to my brother after seeing the marks. I only had to shoot a piercing stare at both of them to parry off notions of . . . more
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January 20, 2007 06:04 AM EST --
Dynamics and psychology of words - why they mean the way they should when we string them into what we call as a complete thought inside a sentence; and how they, like numbers, get the meaning to the concept . . . more
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January 20, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
Let the space between us curl
itself back into the cocoon
of emptiness if there be spaces
still soon after I pay my bill. I see
Your flecks look inviting now
becoming more becoming
than they used to be . . . more
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November 03, 2006 10:45 PM EST --
I.
Where I come from, it was easy to believe in what neighbors said because we trusted each other enough. There was a shared understanding, a kinship of some sort that one was there for the other – . . . more
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October 12, 2006 02:32 AM EDT --
After the casinos we found ourselves on the dusty road to the outskirts. Louie settled behind the wheel, and Qorky his intelligent tabby housemate purred smugly in the middle.
In between cracking and . . . more
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October 13, 2006 12:41 AM EDT --
I chanced upon Krip Yuson's column today on one of the leading dailies, The Philippine Star.
Of all topics apropos to a multi-awarded literary figure who should be well in his nurturing and generative . . . more
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October 30, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
AT THE BEHEST of the younger of her two sons, Virginia looked remorseful after she approved their trip to the island. That was on a Saturday evening while listening to a flash report on the radio about . . . more
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