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The Light Of Ibalon


Return to the sky,

our moon, Bakunawa

 

Masked Haliya has been called,

the tree circled again

 

Balyana is dancing,

the heaven’s in darkness

 

By the goddess of moonlight

—you’re condemned to the sea

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2020)

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