Caulbearer : poems / Luisa A. Igloria.

I. Portrait of the Future as Reversal
Lexicography
Rituals for Remembering
Archive
After Leaving
Portrait of the Heart as Rambutan
Ailanthus
The dogs of appetite
Immigrant Ghazal
Theory & Praxis
Orbital
When you sit down to write, is death ever sitting beside you?
Elegy as Birth Poem for Stars
Phenomenology of Endurance
Salt Craving
Poem with a Line from Lorca
To Carry, as One Carries the Impossible
Ten Lines
Lyric with Nothing to Lose
This is No Longer the Beginning
Poem with Two Lines from Rilke
Propensities of Water
On Recomposition
II. Love is the Condition of Time
You with Your Dark Hair Unfurled like a Banner
Impossible, Ineffable
Natural History of Hands
Ambrosia
Dear Architect,
Natural History of the Mouth
Flora of the Tropics
Empire Cinema
Enrique Remembers Melaka Before Disappearing from Known History
Manifest Destiny: Infinite Loop
Ex-Paradiso
San Maló
The Spratlys
On the 500th Anniversary of Magellan's Philippines Landing
Thief of Moons
Caulbearer
History as Catalogue of Phantasms
I weep from a dream of the goddess
Letter at the Threshold of Oblivion
Blood Oath
Laws of Attraction
Sonnet with Double Reed Pipe
Lost Time
Given a Wing, What Would You Fashion
Portrait of Demeter as Manananggal
Magnificat
III. Catalogue of My Dead
Natural History of My Love for Sour Things
What World
Landscape with Warnings & Moon Jelly
Colony
Prehistory of Language
On the Navigation of Unstable Surfaces
A Genealogy
Landscape, Girdled Mostly by Hills
Aubade with Rising Sea Levels
In the Former Colony, Various Hauntings
Of pleasure,
One or the Other
Memory as Paradoxical Dream
Letter to Singing
Drift
The Oldest Light in the Universe
Millions of Monarchs Make the Rarest Sound
Natural History of the Mole in the Outer Corner of Your Left Eye
Outrigger
A Rapture.