Author Description

Breakaways has over 100 poems on love, society, and selfhood. Author and Publisher: Len Cristobal Printer: Central Book Supply Inc. Excerpts: I live as a flame on a corner. As quiet as a soul and I will burn and burn with all the fire I can give. --"On Writing" The sun, half-sunk in the bay, is inviting me to go where she will lie down tonight. --"Transitions" I realized a poem was cut into pieces and scattered on the islands of Bohol. What else could shape limestones like stanzas and dip them in cocoa to tell the stories of giants in a war and of a mortal lover’s death?...How else could dolphins, free and unowned miles from shore, line up like verses, and as they leap in the air, curve their bodies like commas and flap their fins to say hi and goodbye? --"A Poem for Bohol" Like an orange unpeeled. Firm. Tiny craters make the uneven skin. The citrusy smell invites the uncovering of the pith, of the seeds, of the tenderness within. Never let the surface deceive you. Go through their sores and silence instead. Go unseal their true glory. --"Empathy" When the results came out, these legs felt like two flowing lakes, but somber and slow, and this heart, a fish stabbed by a long pole with a hook. Freaks danced and drank in their hive. Rizal’s sculpture watched us roll our eyes. Our hopeful stars must have cried inside. --"Critical, Jaded Lakes"