Birdcatching in Sagada and other poems /
Franklin Cimatu, Rolando B. Tolentino, and Vladimier B. Gonzales.
- Quezon City : The University of the Philippines Press, c2021.
- vii, 76 pages : 23 cm.
- The Philippine Writers Series 2021. .
Bagio-manila: a wang-wei ticket.--Chainus movie: five slides for five friends.--Agua de Mayo: sestina.--Prewar postcards.--Century plant.--Anito.--Ah beng's projector.--Troubled souls: three from the cordillera.--Golden buddha among the confiscated marijuana.--The dogs of session road.--Maningning's flowers.--Painting frida in the nude.--Burning robert.--Apology by way of fish.--Birdcatching in sagada.--Wishes that were here: three found poems on the cordillera.--The former ka sungar of paracelis.--Odysseus in manabo.--Like nijinsky in fiji.--Marcos baby: sestina a.k.a the blind date.--Defrosting ferdie.--Bye borty bibe blues.--Pinakbet: a canzone.--Selling flowers.--Blue hawaii blues: three sonnetines.--Simplicio's souvenirs.--Secrets.--The hawaii five-O's tsunami episode.--The evolution of the bolo punch.--The paquiao poems.--Playing online chess with my father fourteen years after his death: three sonnests.--The hunches: imagining how it was for 32 journalists the night before.--Decommissioning frank.--Requiem: a birthday poem.
This book is a personal collection of the author. Consisting of poems from his flight path to journalism as well as works including eulogies dedicated to his friends.