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ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born writer, lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Literature and English, magna cum laude), he taught English and Literature (Criticism, Theory, and Creative Writing) at the Philippines' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Philippines. His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. His fiction and poetry were published by online literary journals Asia Writes and Coastal Poems recently. He was a Fellow at the 1972 Silliman University Writers Workshop, Philippines. As a journalist, he worked with the United Press International and wrote an art column for the defunct Philippines Herald.

Monday, December 19, 2011

TASTING SNOW


TASTING SNOW



A pair of Carolina wrens—one in the lilac, the other in the dead cherry—flit from branch to branch, tasting the new-fallen snow.---Dave Bonta, The Morning Porch, 12-18-11 



Snow on those branches, lilac or cherry,
will not mask the taste of autumn chill. 

Frozen twigs are just as brittle as dead
vines on the mottled lattices blown off 

from their rotten moorings. Will nails
hold them down at next riveting? How 

firm will their hold be on these trellises?
Even this abandonment will not last. 

That bush will bloom again, the tree rises
again to restore those spattered perches. 

They cannot die those who have sprung
from the earth when living is still in style.



— Albert B. Casuga
12-18-11


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