| San Miguel Town: Acacia
Trees on Rizal Street |
| Edith L. Tiempo |
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| After EDSA |
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These
hunchbacked and sun-cowled acacia trees
Have peered benignly from a surplice sky-
Through deciduous decades-at heresies
And heroics of chronic passersby.
Three decades past these middle-aged found
That boys on nightime errands pissed in fright
Convinced that these were chthonic monks who
bound
With leather thongs boys without lantern light.
Evenings, these boys-three decades obese now-
Genuflect still at these robust acacias,
Dreading to invent truth for stern wives-how
Basi makes men more loving if loquacious:
They swear these sacerdotal duendes prance
And vow they too are in a whirligig dance. |
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