Doveglion was the artistic sobriquet of the Filipino poet Jose Garcia Villa. It symbolized the dove, eagle, and lion in one, and also the manner of his brave and deep poems which recollects Nature in her fullness even in spite of his living in the chaotic milieu of New York. There is no such poetry to my work here.. only the hammer (which is its own kind of hard-hitting poem). People - the common tranquillized and over-accessorized young person - these days would struggle to apprehend Villa's message through his intricate wordsmithery. My words have been pared back to almost nothing and reveal the poetry through this spareness and bareness. Poetry, as always, as Truth with a capital T.
Never fly unless you have wings...!
A tribute to Villa on Bell's Bridge.
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