New Poems = Poemas Nuevos = Baro a Dandaniw = Bagong Tula. Boys' bodies in flight (are also a kind of text) ; A town called Sadness ; The changing hymn (allegory of the singing lover) ; Making out on a hill overlooking the Hudson ; The hanged ghost ; A Memory on the Eve of the Return of the U.S. Military to Subic Bay ; Learning to Slaughter ; If all my relationships fail and I have no children do I even know what love is ; When Prince was Filipino ; On the elevation of Earthlings-- a hymn ; Atang: Building my first altar ; Check, incantation composed on the occasion of being classified as inadmissible ; Gift ; Where the ocean ends ; La época en que hay olvido ; Sleeping animal ; The last thing or Song for when they take it all away Selected poems from Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003). B-boy infinitives ; Freddie ; Nine thousand outlines ; You clubhouse boys ; The next hundred-odd half-dreamed miles ; Citrus City ; Who says the eye loves symmetry ; "My mother is in Los Angeles" ; Uncommon denominators ; Poem ; Pick-up line ending with a prayer From my American Kundiman (2006). Meditations on the eve of my niece's birth ; On our long road trip home I don't ask my friend if he thinks his youngest daughter might be someone else's kid ; Beast ; Lapu Lapu's envoy conveys his response to Magellan ; When you haven't made love in a long time ; The woman you love cuts apples for you ; Kundiman in medias res ; Kundiman on a dance floor called Guernica ; Kundiman ending on a theme from T La Rock ; Kundiman for my lover beside me on the floor (her daughter asleep on my bed) ; Poem for my extra nipple ; About the white boys who drove by a second time to throw a bucket of water on me ; As Ggass ; St. Patrick ; Two Black people and a Filipino near the concessions Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival ; Photo of my grandmother running toward us on a beach in Ilokos From Boneshepherds (2011). Boneshepherds' lament ; Delenda undone ; Little men with fast hands ; Bienvenida: Santo Tomás ; Tamarind ; Crew love elegy ; Sundiata elegy ; Ars poetica: After a dog ; Naima ; Aubade: The Monday bargain ; Making love to you the night they take your father to prison ; Guitar ; Despedida ardiente ; The tradition of pianos From Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016). Despedida: Brooklyn to Philly ; Typhoon poem ; At the tribunals ; A scavenger's ode to the turntable (aka a Note to Thomas Alva Edison) ; Brokeheart: Just like that ; Ode to the Cee-Lo Players ; The Halo-Halo Men: An anthem ; Violets ; Wish ; Kundiman: Hung justice ; Instance of an Island ; Ten years after my mom dies I dance ; Children walk on chairs to cross a flooded schoolyard ; Ode to eating a pomegranate in Brooklyn ; You cannot go to the god you love with your two legs ; Brooklyn antediluvian
