Left-handed Kindness, with Time Difference
Wrestling with words. Wrestling
with shadows of youth. Wrestling with pain
through the floodwaters.
Wrestling with echoes and booyaka trees.
Wrestling with VIP treatments
na-na-na na-na. Wrestling
with your non-distant
magnetic
ultramarine
philosophy.
Wrestling with
heightened quarantine restrictions. Wrestling wrestling with language starting
with Basque and Rx escapism and monsoon alliteration/addiction silence/sickness of Le Champion
wrestling with pixie risk.
Wrestling with CoViD and its poverty ward
its bastard child Delta
et cetera et cetera.
Wrestling with the ambassadress
of 6-1-9 mood pageantry.
Wrestling with brand politics
Pfizer/Sinovac/Astra Zeneca//
plink! plink! plink! plink!
I’m fully vaxxed
with your left-handed kindness.
with shadows of youth. Wrestling with pain
through the floodwaters.
Wrestling with echoes and booyaka trees.
Wrestling with VIP treatments
na-na-na na-na. Wrestling
with your non-distant
magnetic
ultramarine
philosophy.
Wrestling with
heightened quarantine restrictions. Wrestling wrestling with language starting
with Basque and Rx escapism and monsoon alliteration/addiction silence/sickness of Le Champion
wrestling with pixie risk.
Wrestling with CoViD and its poverty ward
its bastard child Delta
et cetera et cetera.
Wrestling with the ambassadress
of 6-1-9 mood pageantry.
Wrestling with brand politics
Pfizer/Sinovac/Astra Zeneca//
plink! plink! plink! plink!
I’m fully vaxxed
with your left-handed kindness.
BIO:
Lawdenmarc Decamora is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated Filipino poet. He is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Lady Pat's Chapbook of Manicured Eyebrows for Post-Fordist Vending Machines (UK: Newcomer Press, 2023). His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, and elsewhere.
Lawdenmarc Decamora is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated Filipino poet. He is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Lady Pat's Chapbook of Manicured Eyebrows for Post-Fordist Vending Machines (UK: Newcomer Press, 2023). His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, and elsewhere.
