Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri
"the way sound seemed to drip out of her mouth" — Erica Miriam Fabri
‘Cello by Ramón C. Sunico
“the way he favors / his left hand (which touches / its strings) as if it were a wing // that touched God;” — Ramón C. Sunico
Ermita in the Rain by Angela Manalang-Gloria
"But the phantom of your voice that / Stays me dreaming at my door." — Angela Manalang-Gloria
Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine
"I'm to market. I can smell / the sour, grooved block, I can smell / the blade that opens the hole" — Philip Levine