Poems by Vhey Casison

Rain cut

Let the scalpel work on weekdays
against bloodless flesh on wood,
marking bones in bright red ink.
But on weekends
let rain cut
clouds
into dream-sized
pieces
so the sun may rest
yellow on fig trees,
the sky shedding blue.

Fuschia

VHEY CASISON  is an amateur biologist and anatomy teacher at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His life mission is to have enough money so he can space out during weekends and extract poetry out of the mundane, without having to worry about those nasty things, called bills.