Zola Gonzalez-Macarambon was a guest artist at the recent China-Asean Expo 10 as contributing poet to an upcoming literary anthology of ASEAN writers. Her work has appeared in The Philippines Graphic, The Philippines Free Press, and most recently, The Red River Review 50th Anniversary issue, among others. She lives in Cagayan de Oro City where she is a freelance writer and faculty of the English and Humanities Department of Capitol University. For more information, please visit http://zolagonzalezmacarambon.weebly.com/

Zola Gonzalez-Macarambon

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Blazers

1
The trees mumble.
Listen.
Brother, where are you?

2
Not shadows
but a dense black
cast upon the sun.

3
Look!
A knife of sun
cuts between the eyes!

4
Many who came
are gone.

5
In Riding Hood's basket
are cheese and bread
and brandy for grandma.

6
No leopards, no lions,
no wolves here.
Only men.

7
When Dante went through hell,
for a guide he chose
a poet.

8
Sometimes, he slips
on the spit he spat
on his own footpath.

9
Once, I saw a boy
lose a tooth to a tree.
It was a long time ago.

10
"Rock- a- bye baby on a treetop..."
Her doctor says it's post-partum.
Most probably.

11 Among the *Tedurays,
dead babies are placed in tawih or *malong
and hung on trees deep in the forest
without the benefit of gong music.

*An ethnic group of Southern Philippines

*A traditional garment resembling a tube skirt