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The spectral traces of lightning bugs - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

Quails flitted out of a bamboo tree - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

Flecked with otherworldly raindrops - Joseph O. Legaspi "Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father"

A deceptive kind of knowledge - Joseph O. Legaspi "Kissing My Father"

On occasions of safe approach - Joseph O. Legaspi "Kissing My Father"

The first kiss carries history - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

A kiss can resuscitate the drowned Ophelia - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Moths flutter out of her body - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Bridged by clouds of breath - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Still for a wingbeat second - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

and the lemon trees shudder - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

The knowledge is no revelation - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

A book that multiplies its pages - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

A settling and a continuum - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

Ghost fragrances of wisteria and gardenia - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

A scattering both of isolation and attachment - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

As we pour honey, conjuring the invisible bees - Joseph O. Legaspi "Raspberries"

Around the handle of your gentle kettle - Joseph O. Legaspi "Raspberries"

Roused by the nightingales - Joseph O. Legaspi "Someone"

Clear a path through jungles of shame - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

The tender scarf of warm mercies - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

Cradled in the nest of your neck - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

In our separateness and composites - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

Whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Wicked at the door of happiness - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"


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