ALBERT B. CASUGA: THE RENDEZVOUS

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

THE RENDEZVOUS

THE RENDEZVOUS

A ruckus of wind behind the trees

roils the primrose trail and startles

the wayward doe. A dull grey sky

looms as a late sundown darkens

the path where we said we would be:

a rendezvous by the quiet bluffs

where we would have seen the sun

set as we always do, but the overcast

sky is a crowd of clouds now, we

could barely see the crinkled yellow

leaf float like wafted cotton to damp

rocks below, taking forever. Like us.

The autumn of our years, we whisper.

A gust whistles an eerie trace of air:

It is cold. I took time hugging you.

---Albert B. Casuga

07-12-11

Prompt: Wind moves in the trees behind the trees, and a small yellow leaf tumbles down from the overcast sky, taking its time to reach the ground.---Dave Bonta, The Morning Porch, 07-12-11

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The Blogger's Books

Summer Suns (short story collection with Cirilo F. Bautista, Manila, UST Press, 1962); Narra Poems and Others (poetry collection, San Beda College Publications, Manila, 1968); Still Points (poetry collection, Flores & Associates, Manila, 1972); In a Sparrow's Time (poetry collection, Infocom, Canada, 1990); Songs For My Children (poetry collection, Infocom, Canada, 1996); The Aesthetics of Literature (Literary Theory and Criticism, De La Salle University, Manila, 1972); Editor: Man in Search of Meaning: Literature (Humanities Series, Asia Foundation & DLSU Textbook Committee, Manila, 1970); Man and His Literary Past: The Classical Tradition (Asia Foundation & DLSU Textbook Committee, Manila, 1971); A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2009). The author's prose and poetry are anthologized in books published in the Philippines, Canada, United States, Australia, and Indonesia.