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  • polyglot incantation
  • Barbara Jane Reyes (bio)

siya ay nakatayo sa balikat ng bundokshe stands upon the mountain's shoulderslangit ay kulay ng ginto at dugosky's the color of gold and bloodsumisigaw siya ¡mira! ¡el sol!see how the sun weepstingnan mo! umiiyak ang araw!how this mountainslope burnsnag-aapoy siya rinsky's the color of black pearlsiyan lagi ang sa aking panaginipthis have i prophesizedang mukha ng araw ay umiiyak

and what are these glyphswikang matemátikásome human machinerysímbólo, enkantada, o gayumamaker of souls and tonguesanong pisi o balat ng ahaswhat twine or serpent skin bindssilangan at kanluranpearl of the orienteste punto del embarcofractured archipelagoang mga anak mo ay nakakalatyour children have scatteredcielo el color de perlas negrasdo not forget that they have namesmay sariling pangalan ang aming diwata [End Page 125]

Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes (bjanepr@gmail.com) is the author of Gravities of Center (2003), Poeta en San Francisco (2005), Diwata (2010), and the chapbooks Easter Sunday, Cherry, and West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM and other Oakland Poems. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in such publications as Asian Pacific American Journal, Border Senses, Fourteen Hills, HOW2, In the Grove, Latino Poetry Review, New American Writing, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, as well as the anthologies Babaylan (2000), Going Home to a Landscape (2003), Pinoy Poetics (2004), and Poets on Teaching (2010). She currently teaches in Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco.

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