Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the poetry collections Threshold and Imago (CavanKerry Press) and the chapbooks Postcards (Ghost Bird Press), Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), and Subways (Thrush Press). He co-founded Kundiman and guest-edited the Philippine-American lit section in the March 2018 issue of WLT.
Corona Avenue, Queens / Photos by David Rohlfing
(1) On the longest day of the longest year, I did not sleep. I stood as witness with the maximum tilt of the Arctic Circle toward the sun.
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Bonifacio Global City, Manila, 2015. photo: jason reblando
In 2015, while on a Fulbright research fellowship in the Philippines, I went on a walking tour of Intramuros, the famed walled city in Mani...