Gemino Abad. Danica Mae's brief story -- Grave thief -- Scarborough Shoal -- Traffic! -- Manuel Ortega Abis. Blood curse -- Jose Marte A. Abueg. No more mornings (how a small-time pusher lost all his lights) -- Nights of the nameless killers -- Jim Pascual Agustin. More wax than human -- It was never a landslide, but people are now dead and dying -- Escape -- TokHang Santa -- Gene Alcantara. Man from Davao -- My country -- Albert Alejo, SJ. Sanayan lang ang pagpatay -- Rio Alma. Ilang ulat na makirot -- Alma Anonas-Carpio. Mercy -- Dark hours -- Cesar Ruiz Aquino. Henri not Henry -- Why Yang Yin -- Poem -- Isabela Banzon. Night -- Andy Z. Batangantang. Tudla -- Cirilo F. Bautista. Say anything -- My brother's shoes -- Ghazal in time -- When times are bad -- Solo for a mouth organ -- Pato del mar -- Jean A. Bettine. Doggerel for Dutertards -- Long ago & far away -- Country music -- Dr duterts -- Merlinda Bobis. Ballad of the turtle and the ghost -- F. Jordan Carnice. Poetry as a lesson in values -- Poetry as a lesson in dwelling -- Ian Rosales Casocot. "Mub on" -- "Move on" -- Albert B. Casuga. Mamasapano massacre -- Wrath descending -- Thomas David Chaves. Para que estamos en poder? -- Michael M. Coroza. Kumakatok ang paghatol -- Fidelito Cortes. Elegy to the bookcase -- Dakila Cutab. (Kara)tula -- George Deoso. Her new church -- Simeon Dumdum, Jr. Ode to the last and smallest tomato on the table -- Street scene -- A chance encounter with Rodrigo Duterte in the men's room -- Elson Elizaga. Blankets -- My kind of dictator -- Mi querido dictador -- Marjorie Evasco. Tambaloslos (gikan sa kasugiran sa Kabisay-an) -- Tambaloslos (from Visayan wisdom lore) -- Luis H. Francia. Requiem for the common tao -- Eric Gamalinda. Dalangin -- Devotion -- Propaganda for the living -- Luisa A. Igloria. Extrajudicial Ghazal -- Ghazal, with rising body count -- Refuse Ghazal -- Before the hit, they removed my leash -- Miyako Dominguez Izabel. God shall weepp -- Poor poet's plea -- Carljoe Javier. Cardboard villanelle -- Marne Kilates. The beast -- Tokhang rhapsody (or: The EJK pieta) -- Vers macabre (or: The song of impunity) -- Resurrection -- Jose F. Lacaba. Bangungot -- Nightmare -- Prometheus unbound -- Angelo R. Lacuesta. Letter to be read by the dead -- Marra PL. Lanot. Ang bala -- The bullet -- Soldier's song -- One country is a mouth -- Christine V. Lao. As Josephine -- Survivor's guilt -- Marie La Vina. The remains of Ferdinand Marcos speak -- Correspondence -- Jamie An Lim. Marawi -- Paolo Manalo. E is for epal -- Areglo -- Arvin Abejo Mangohig. Film Center -- Aratilis -- Nutribun -- Love in the time of Martial Law -- Sylvia L. Mayuga. Caballero -- Mac McCarthy. Where is Hizzoner -- Herman Melencio. Bawal -- Grace R. Monte de Ramos. Brave woman -- Raymundo T. Pandan, Jr. Our incurable belief in the reliability of small numbers -- Burning the house down -- Versus -- Anthem -- CF Paderna. Marcela -- Victor Penaranda. Restless -- Authority -- Bystander -- Suspect -- Padmapani L. Perez. An EJK nursery rhyme, or: Children at play on the street at dusk -- Nicolas B. Pichay. Dumadami -- Floy Quintos. All Souls Day -- Untitled -- Lamentations -- Panaghoy -- Dinah Roma. First degree -- Ninotchka Roska. My dear young lady -- Darylle Rubino. Tokhang -- Joel Pablo Salud. Hinagpis ng lupa -- OREMUS -- Chris B. Salvatierra. Eskinita -- Louie Jon A. Sanchez. Milya -- Desesperado -- Sa pag-aabang ng traysikel isang tanghali -- Ramon C. Sunico. Affidavit of loss -- Aralin sa kasaysayan #3 (kung paano pumatay ng bala) -- Aralin sa kasaysayan #4 -- Pagbangon ng mandirigma -- Joel M. Toledo. Layman's terms -- Molting -- Rowena Torrevillas. Ongoing elegy -- Ricardo M. de Ungria. tibaw -- Eric Tinsay Valles. Sleeping beauty redux -- VYXZ Vasquez. Above all -- Memento Mori -- Joel Vega. A sad day in the body -- Bastard Ghazal for a lightning burial -- Lourd Ernest de Veyra. The precinct janitor's breakfast -- Shabu is d'most dangerous drags in the history of the solor system -- Santiago Villafania. Extra judicial haiKu -- Alfred A. Yuson. Populism -- Patago, pasimple, papuslit : pero peke -- Civil service -- Unwinnable wars