I know that I’m depressed, sensitive, and selfish. I’m just determined to do this thing, which is paint in solitude, and I will burn bridges to do it, including relationships.
—
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Two Poems by Joy T. Dayrit
- Bernard Cooper by Benjamin Weissman
- Rob Weiss by Susan Shacter
- Gary Lang by Saul Ostrow
- Han Ong by Jessica Hagedorn
- Mike Bidlo by Anney Bonney
- Trisha Brown by Yvonne Rainer
- Gus Van Sant by Gary Indiana
- Francine Prose by Deborah Eisenberg
- Chen Kaige by Peggy Chiao & Lawrence Chua
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- Betrayal by Hilary Sio
- Five Days by Max Blagg
- Four Poems by David Mamet
- Three Poems by Dael Orlandersmith
- All Data is Raw by Elena Alexander
- Dark Ice by Thomas Bolt
- tongues of many tongues: Filipino Poetry by Luis Francia
- Two Poems by Ricardo M. de Ungria
- Two Poems by Emmanuel Lacaba
- Two Poems by Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariño
- Two Poems by Danton Remoto
- Two Poems by Lina Sagaral Reyes
- Two Poems by Alfred A. Yuson
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Antique
Newly carved
Of wood and ivory,
A cacique praised me.
The cacique’s friends
And their wives praised me,
Played music praising
My ivory face
And my gown of wooden lace.
Quite suddenly it seems,
This house is empty
And in my gown
Of aged lace, I listen
To relics
Of chanted music.
Untitled
If all I’d leave you be a poem
I’d write about the time
we walked a street, you lost a shoe,
and hurried back for it.
Flat and black, it lay on a pavement, face up,
while people passing by took care not to crush it.
Slipping it back on you said: My shoe is soft inside,
and your foot was white against it.
Joy Dayrit is a journalist, poet, and short story writer. She teaches creative writing to children at a Montessori school in Manila.
Originally published in
BOMB 45,
Fall 1993
Featuring interviews with Gus Van Sant, Trisha Brown, Bernard Cooper, Francine Prose by Deborah Eisenberg, Mike Bidlo, Rob Weiss, Han Ong, Chen Kaige, Lawrence Chua, and Garry Lang.
