Jones Abellanosa - Everlasting Grief

Velocity of blood, nourishment from 

Artery swooning me.  I smell velvets to

My embrace, centuries of stones and thorns,

Passages of agony.  I suffer under the bed of

Immortality, patron to desires, my own

Recalcitrance, dreading the sun’s hunger

Extinguished in serenities of ashes

Jonel Abellanosa resides in Cebu City, the Philippines.  His poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Anglican Theological Review, The McNeese Review, Pedestal and Bangalore Review.  He has a chapbook, Pictures of the Floating World (Kind of a Hurricane Press).  He’s working on two collections, Multiverse and 100 Acrostic Poems.