ALBERT B. CASUGA: COUNTERPOINTS

Thursday, September 15, 2011

COUNTERPOINTS

COUNTERPOINTS

Watching night turn to day—a thing that should be gradual, but instead proceeds by small leaps of realization: “It’s lighter now!” Rain. ---Dave Bonta, The Morning Porch, 09-15-11

Rhythms define our movements here

before we arrive at still points we find

are quaint leaps of quiet epiphanies:

sundowns are sunrises like crashing

waves ebb, nights are days shorn of

nightmares, screams of pain a lullaby.

I see these circles twirl and ask: why?

Is darkness known only through light?

Fierce love through utter loneliness?

Why must a bright day be rained on?

How does life go from death to living?

Lest one dies to oneself, he is not alive.

When the rhythm ceases on a still point,

do movements move toward an end?

Where is my end when I have not begun?

---Albert B. Casuga

09-15-11

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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.