Rina Garcia Chua is currently pursuing a PhD in interdisciplinary studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where she is completing a project on “The Ecological Literacy of a Migrant Ecocriticism.” She is the editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry, which was published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House in 2018 and nominated for a National Book Award in the category of Best Anthology in English.
Photo: Courtesy of the Author
As she pleases
after Tropical Storm Ondoy, 2009
If only words dilute sediments at the bottom of my gut; if only a tongue can let this pain hydroplane into a…