2024/184: Antiemetic for Homesickness — Romalyn Ante

2024/184: Antiemetic for Homesickness — Romalyn Ante

and while your house grew with gifts -
a rooster crowing in a bayong,
a sack of corn, whiffs of ripe jackfruit, 

     a patient woke
     and accused me of stealing
     her job; 

[from 'The Shaman, the Servant: for my grandfather']

I first became aware of Ante's poetry via the Guardian's Poem of the Week column, and liked her interweaving of Filipino and British culture. Ante, who's from the Phillipines, has worked as an NHS nurse.( Read more... )