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accidental midnight voyeur
By Karlo Sevilla
monumental concrete corpse
this decrepit building
across my apartment
and now the only thing
that betrays its flickering life
is the lone bright window
on its 13th floor
and the svelte silhouette
that sheds as skin
clothes and accessories
piece by piece
a fragment of liquid shadow
sloughed one after the other
guilty I close the blinds
and snake into my bed
somewhere in yakushima
By Karlo Sevilla
languid forest river
slow sedated
as the dusk
that surrenders
to the undergrowth
cold as the frozen arrow
and the blood
that seeped into snow
its crepuscular water
fails to mirror
the fragile fawn
that leaps and glides
one slithery edge
to the mossier other
in search of her mother
Karlo Sevilla of Quezon City, Philippines is the author of four poetry collections, among them are the full-length "Metro Manila Mammal" (Soma Publishing, 2018) and the chapbook “Recumbent” (8Letters Bookstore and Publishing, 2023). Shortlisted for the 2023 Creators of Justice Literary Award and the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, and thrice nominated for the Best of the Net, his poems appear in Philippines Graphic, Philippines Free Press, Matter, Radius, Small Orange, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.
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