The Night Guest
Hear it, through the walls
how it crinkles
like overworked skin.
Unused to movement
its limbs grind
bone to socket.
It learns soon enough
how it is excused
from laws of earthly motion.
Lakan Umali
Lakan Umali graduated with a BA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines Diliman and is currently pursuing an MA in Sociology from the same university. He is a former member of UP Writer