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    The narrator follows the setting moon across the reef flats in front of their bamboo cottage and nearly steps on a parrotfish caught by the low tide. The narrator picks up the slimy parrotfish and returns it to the sea, but the fish quickly swims away without thanks towards the horizon where the moon was hiding. The narrator hopes that in the future the parrotfish will surprise them with a greeting and brag about its scales painted by the setting moon.

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    The narrator follows the setting moon across the reef flats in front of their bamboo cottage and nearly steps on a parrotfish caught by the low tide. The narrator picks up the slimy parrotfish and returns it to the sea, but the fish quickly swims away without thanks towards the horizon where the moon was hiding. The narrator hopes that in the future the parrotfish will surprise them with a greeting and brag about its scales painted by the setting moon.

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    Moonset Reflected in a Parrotfish's Escape

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    The narrator follows the setting moon across the reef flats in front of their bamboo cottage and nearly steps on a parrotfish caught by the low tide. The narrator picks up the slimy parrotfish and returns it to the sea, but the fish quickly swims away without thanks towards the horizon where the moon was hiding. The narrator hopes that in the future the parrotfish will surprise them with a greeting and brag about its scales painted by the setting moon.

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    MOONSET AT CENTRAL PARK STATION OF ST.

    PAUL
    SUBTERRANEAN RIVER NATIONAL PARK
    John Iremil E. Teodoro
    This morning,
    it forgot to
    after the faint
    thank me.
    scent of sea
    grasses awakened
    It didn’t even
    me,
    bother To look back
    I followed
    –
    the setting
    It swam
    moon in the
    quickly away
    reef flats
    from me.
    in front of my
    It dived
    bamboo cottage.
    towards the
    direction of the
    I nearly stepped
    horizon
    on a parrotfish
    where the moon
    that was caught
    was hiding.
    by the low tide.
    it was as big
    Perhaps in next
    as my slipper.
    visit that
    parrotfish
    I picked
    will surprise
    its slimy body
    me with a
    and returned it
    greeting.
    to the sea.
    It shall brag to
    In its excitement
    me about its
    scales painted by
    the setting moon.
    (First appeared in the book Paruparu at Korales/Butterflies and Corals: A
    Collection of Palawan Poems in Filipino and English published by Bandillo ng
    Palawan Foundation, 1999).

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