Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista,
The author of
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
Selected Poems
Dead Weight: In Memoriam
(Ferdinand E. Marcos, 11 September 1917—28 September 1989)
Excerpt from Telex Moon (Part Three)
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
Excerpt from Sunlight on Broken Stones
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
The Sea Cannot Touch
The sea cannot touch me now
nor the sky
in this room whose arms are
your arms
They would spell the night
I took you for my wife
I do not think of candles in that church
Though they were there
the priest the words though they
were there
I think only of your sad
beautiful face following
the nothing there/the nothing
to construct our lives with/hoping
the singing birds would come
and house among its branches