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Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


A key
Inserted on a doorknob
Cannot turn itself
Someone has to be
It’s turning’s progenitor

What
If indeed a key
Turns a doorknob
By itself?

‘Tis like asking
If a cockroach can
Push an elephant
Or if a gentle breeze can
Knockout a sturdy house

It coheres with the circumstance
When a ball rests and bounces
At the same time

When the slightly probable
Fills the observer’s eyes
As an inescapable vista of verdant forests
Green and lucidly green


[Writ. 29 May 91, Cubao, Quezon City, M.Manila]