Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo
The Measuring Cup

Dawn lays a sheet of sound: a hundred lizards out there
vying for meals in flight. Here's one
nearly crushed as I
shut the lid
of our
rice
bin.

I
boil
a bowl,
one after
the other (waking
each child, one after the other)
until mother dies. "As above," she said, "so below."