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e l s e w h e r e h e l d a n d l i n g e r e d i elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 1 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM ii elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 2 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM e l s e w h e r e h e l d a n d l i n g e r e d C O N C H I T I N A C R U Z iii elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 3 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM elsewhere held and lingered © 2008 by Conchitina Cruz 2nd Printing, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. A CIP record for this book is available from the National Library of the Philippines. Published by HIGH CHAIR Quezon City, Philippines High Chair is a nonprofit small press. We publish our poems and those of others we believe in, and initiate projects that promote poetry in general. ISBN 978-971-93304-5-5 Cover art by Delilah Aguilar/Photographed by Bubuy Balangue and Adam David Cover design by Adam David Layout by Oliver Ortega iv elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 4 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications in which these poems, sometimes in slightly different versions, first appeared: High Chair: “The Marriage,” “This Hand”; At Home in Unhomeliness: “Address to the body in the room” (“Let the music appease the unnerved skin”), “Swivel”; Philippines Free Press: “Pull yourself together,” “Where were you all this time?” (“Look, you say, the world is itself again”). This book would not have been completed without the time spent at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. Sincere gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation for the generous support. v elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 5 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM vi elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 6 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM I The Marriage 5 It should be enough 7 What now, my love? 9 C O N T E N T S Quiet 10 A sensible life 11 If you could do this for me 12 Strange habit 13 Send me to the moon 14 II Multiple choice 19 III Address to the body in the room 25 Fiction 26 Swivel 28 Address to the body in the room 30 Finger exercise 31 vii elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 7 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM Errand 33 A red dress 34 A sensible life 35 IV This hand 39 I’ll be seeing you 41 There are worse things 42 From “Versions of delay” 43 Inventory of a year 44 A sensible life 52 One for my baby, and one more for the road 53 Pull yourself together 54 Marginalia 56 From “Versions of elsewhere” 62 V A sensible life 65 Cry me a river 66 Errand 67 Domestic life 68 viii elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 8 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM Detour 70 From the notebook of substitutions 71 Peripheral vision 72 Where were you all this time? 74 It’s good to see you out in the sun 75 Where were you all this time? 76 VI Index of last lines 79 ix elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 9 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM x elsewhere_inside_111910.indd 10 11/19/2010 2:07:55 AM
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