Love ***** Once We Loved The Dust Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

for Ka Josue, Nole, Nicole who waited for our arrival from a long rough dusty trip, Tupi highway to INC Cebuano locale, South Cotabato,
with Argee, my yours

Once we loved the dust as it blew
Down from the pineapple plains
Propelled by the tricycle wheels
That whirled the dust
To breath in the air against our sight
Our nostril but still we loved
The dust as it blew.
Once we loved the dust in Cebuano
Almost as tight as the romantic
Touch of our affairs
Too tight as our eyes
Closed against the dust as it blew

Once we loved the smell of the fish
When its melting-blood-scented ice
Dropped over our head
From the cab roof and we loved
To take the foul odor for granted
As long as we held breath in
Midst of life-and-death
Roller coaster road.
Once we loved all of those things
A combination of sea creature and sand
Plains and waves Fear and love
And we knew there must be something more
When we often visit our cute Nicole