ALBERT B. CASUGA: TASTING SNOW

Monday, December 19, 2011

TASTING SNOW

TASTING SNOW

A pair of Carolina wrens—one in the lilac, the other in the dead cherry—flit from branch to branch, tasting the new-fallen snow.---Dave Bonta, The Morning Porch, 12-18-11

Snow on those branches, lilac or cherry,
will not mask the taste of autumn chill.

Frozen twigs are just as brittle as dead
vines on the mottled lattices blown off

from their rotten moorings. Will nails
hold them down at next riveting? How

firm will their hold be on these trellises?
Even this abandonment will not last.

That bush will bloom again, the tree rises
again to restore those spattered perches.

They cannot die those who have sprung
from the earth when living is still in style.

— Albert B. Casuga
12-18-11

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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.