Orbit: The Asian American Issue
Volume 15:3, Summer 2014
Sweating in Quezon City
Sweating in Quezon City is waking to the new days humidity slowly rubbing your shoulder Wash off last nights perspiration only to be drenched in the morning dew Sweating in Quezon City is a mixture of wind and car exhaust drying sticky skin, handkerchief running down the bridge of your nose and along your jaw line Sweating in Quezon City is leaving the comfort of an air-conditioned room to meet your lover in a sunken garden Sweating in Quezon City is your lovers face glistening in the pink sunset It is kissing the salt off his eyelids and neck, his skin clean as the earth
stars
Together
let us dangle
on Orions belt
and cast off
dancing into
the stellar expanse
let us drift
among the planets
lose ourselves
in our orbit
as all worlds
get swept into ours
let us surrender
to the gravity
of our bodies
collapsing
bursting
into a million sparks
Let us fill the skies
Jude Paul Dizon is a West Coast Filipino stranded in DC. He is a student of June Jordan's Poetry for the People Program and a 2008 VONA participant.