General Anxiety Without the Word Genocide

Poems

This letter arrives to you from an unspeakable time in the collective, though it’s true that many things have been unspeakable in the last two years.

In Toboso, Negros Occidental, a national university student was killed by the Philippine army. The army also murdered two Filipino-American activists, a journalist, a local resident, two land rights activists, and two minors.

Alyssa Alano and RJ Ledesma were friends of friends. They deserve justice. They could’ve been any one of us.

Whenever I find my words failing, I turn to poetry.

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Breathwork

Inhale for four, exhale for eight

Imagine peeling a perfect orange

to plant yourself in your body

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