Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

the moment

the fireworks

dim your shadow

—Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

as you lay dying

I rock your grandson

to sleep

—Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo 

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

scalp wound

under father’s bonnet

cloudy hilltop

—Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Lamplight

amid the cork tree leaves.

A nestless egg.

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

On a thread of scent,

weaver ants

climb leaves of insulin. 

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Home because of children

and webless spiders.

Sunlight moves across the floor, out the door. 

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

A lizard hunts

a beetle on the cupboard hinge.

Squish.

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

fallen mango

a bruise blooms

before dawn

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Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

A coconut rolled

Into a gutter and grew

A root that won’t take.


Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo

Our egg tray carried

marbles and hair clips, a swirl

of dusty sunlight.

Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo