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banyaga
Gabby Hoggatt
mothertongue return to me
i beg in the foreigner’s infection
touch my tonsils
draw out the gutteral smoke of industry
let me swallow the shores of palawan
speak silver sand dripping from my lips
let me reach out pinewood hands
dried out away from your monsoon sun
and hold just one golden syllable
close to my orphaned chest
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