that marsh wrens should be gifs for ready-or-logique technicians, rather
than fire-hope-hulls with hints of deep straw yellow, the color
of beetle hordes on wheat or camphor trees that make
Tiger Balm Ltd of Singapore quite flush with dollars and fast-ill-comfort
how facilely, the purple blotches fell ‘round mangrove-urges
the exquisite smell of earth at daybreak, and all the forenoon :
it is with pang – not pang- -less – that we miss your bunnyhug
Mark Faunlagui was born in the Philippines, grew up in NJ/NY and graduated from Cornell University. He is an architect in NYC and lives in Jersey City. His work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Omniverse, The New Engagement, Broken Lens, White Stag, Assaracus, The Corduroy Mountain, Quarter Notes, By the WAYE and The Red Wheelbarrow. He has been a featured reader at the NYC Poetry Festival (’24 + ’25). On Some HispanoLuso Miniaturists, (1913 Press/June ‘18) and Porn W/Out Sex (Fence Books/forthcoming Fall ‘27) are the first and third books in the projected Third World Lover Trilogy.
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