I eat the color

Of the smallest fleeting

When my room’s dark violet

Breaks into blue, chewing

Slowly only a handful,

Pulping the painless,

Delighting in delicate

Orbs of sweet quiet,

Refusing to let the dawn go

Jonel Abellanosa lives in Cebu City, the Philippines.  His poetry is forthcoming in Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature, Anglican Theological Review, the P.E.N. Mindanao Peace anthology, Dirtcakes journal, and has appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Qarrtsiluni, Red River Review, Fox Chase Review, Burning Word, Barefoot Review, the Philippines Free Press and the Philippine Graphic magazine.