Diwata by Barbara Jane Reyes

Author:Barbara Jane Reyes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2011-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

This place before him was not a void but a crawl space, a tunnel he carved for himself inside his mother’s body dying all around him. He broke right through her. He knew no other way.

There is no known portrait of her face, he now laments. Only my mosaic of many scattered stones.

CROSSING

Long, long ago, in the north, it was said the mountain opened herself to the people. A stream of the clearest water once flowed, there, where she provided shelter from windstorm and rain. The people of the mountain moved as shadows with their bows and spears through her forests. They gave thanks for she allowed them a crossing through her folds. Among these hunters, there was one who was blessed, for a diwata visited her.

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