Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

ALICE THERESA
ALICE M. SUN-CUA is an obstetrician-gynecologist who
practices in Manila, Philippines. She has an MFA in Creative
Writing from the De La Salle University, Manila, and has published
five books: Riding Towards the Sunrise and other Travel Tales
(National Book Award, 2001), Charted Prophesies and other
Poems, (2002) and The Transition Years: Perimenopause in Filipino
Women (2008), and with the ALON Collective, two anthologies,
What the Water Said (2004) and WaterShed (2009). Her poems had
been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Hiligaynon. She recently
finished a translation project with Instituto Cervantes de Manila,
rendering Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma’s Las Personas del
Verbo into English. She is also preparing her collection of travel
narratives, Calle Miguel Ángel in my Mind. She writes and speaks
English, Filipino, Chinese, Spanish, Hiligaynon and Cebuano.
With words
(for Madeleine, who taught me the magic of sign language)
Because the sounds
were caged within
a voiceless void,
she speaks to me
of joy this morning
with eager gesticulations,
hands darting like sparrows.
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