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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Sometime, somehow, this heart
must learn to stop on some sill.
Flitting, it will not find its perch,
like the migrant wood thrush,
flying from branch to branch—
nowhere as happy as the fawn
nuzzling its mother’s neck
at the edge of the woods where
home is. Will this heart soon
find its dawn, its perch, its home?

— Albert B. Casuga
10-03-11

Prompt: Dawn. A migrant wood thrush flits from branch to branch along the edge of the woods. In the yard, a grown fawn nuzzles its mother’s neck.---Dave Bonta, The Morning Porch, 10-03-11

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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.