Merlie M. Alunan

Heart Fiat

Arts & Literature

“This is the city of the mind after the Fall. After tyrannous empires die and come to life over and over to torment us. After the Bomb, its constant curse threatening our fragile peace. In these days of diaspora when the sons and daughters of men and women scrabble for survival on the edges of inhospitable borderlands. In these times when language is a mere bundle of flippant clichés without meaning. How does one create poetry in this bleak landscape? With the heart’s fiat, with faith, finding God’s tracks among the rubble of words, shards of history, splinters of memory. He is there, still there, heart fiat says.”