Monday, October 9, 2023

Upland

Upland
Dr Abe V Rotor

Aerial view from a helicopter, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.  
Photo by the author, circa 1986

You are a minuscule
of the Fertile Crescent,
a far cry from Euclid's measure.
You run along the margin
of the northwestern coast,
where there are no rivers that cross,
and lie at the heels of the Cordillera,
where there are no valleys in which to hide;
but you are a good provider
to a kind and gentle people
tanned with sweat and soil
and tempered with austere living
that speaks of their heart and art;
a geometry of functional beauty.

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods, 1995, Megabooks

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