I would say we are in a museum wing, / or some kind of movie-fantasy chalet, waiting / for a villain to arrive on the ski field.

5 poems from Filipino idioms—”How could I know what was coming? / A relief to look up and recognise nothing.”

others who emerge // every day // wearing different clothes // who want to reshape / the horizon the steep cliffs / who live in houses which slide // now & then into the sea

It was only then that they realised that the floor of the museum was covered with a layer of ash, in which their footsteps left deep but silent traces.