bio
art by dee rimbaud
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Alegria Imperial is a retired journalist from Manila, Phillipines, who currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has been published in Poets Lane, Reiter's Block, and Tiny Lights. One of Alegria's haiku won an honorable mention in the 2007 Vancouver Cherry Blossom's Festival Haiku International contest.
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Abrazos |
If your lips open
as if in awe, and purse
for a light trill, if a tiny whisper
escapes through your smile, a
soft hiss as you breathe
you have said,
Abrazos.
Say it again
and feel your
breast caving in
as your arms curve
like an open arc, an arc
the size of your aching.
Then when your palms
clasp, feel how your heart
gasps, as it curls
in hers.
copyright 2008
Alegria Imperial |
