The likhaan book of poetry and fiction, 1995 / [edited by] Gemino H. Abad, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo.

CONTENTS: POETRY: First born / Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Cariǫ, (p.9) -- Train ride / Jim Pascual Agustin, (p.12) -- A matter of choice / Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta, (p.14) -- Poem No.10 / Auggusta de Almeidda, (p.17) -- Crab story / Merlie M. Alunan, (p.19) -- Rain / Carlos A. Angeles, (p.22) -- Ms. Marang & Mr. Durian / Juaniyo Arcellana, (p.24) -- Watching the garden / Cirili F. Bautista, (p.26) -- Waterfall / Randy M. Bustamante, (p.28) -- A Filipino writer of English poems to a Filipino writer of Spanish poems / Justine U. Camacho, (p.31) -- Me, reading in front of the mirror / Cean, (p.33) -- Birdcatching in Sagada / King Cimatu, (p.35) -- Queue. At the Manila Post Ofice, 1306 hrs / Ricardo M. de Ungria, (p.36) -- Pictures of the floating world / Ruel S. de Vera, (p.38) -- The gender bias of Newtonian Physics / Simeon Dumdum Jr., (p.40) -- Katipunera / Elsa Martinez-Coscolluela, (p.41) -- Is it the kingfisher? / Marjorie Evasco, (p.47) -- Master Leung (after a watercolor by Lao Lian Ben) / Hilario Francia, (p.49) -- Baguio, the Return / Ralph Semino Galan, (p.51) -- Legend of the seafoam / J. Neil Garcia, (p.53) -- Lady tiger triptych (a promise kept to my dear troubles) / Ramil Digal Gulle, (p.57) -- Window to the wind / Sid Gomez Hildawa, (p.61) -- Afternoon wind / Neal Imperial, (p.62) -- Clay bowl / John Labella, (p.64) -- Poems in remembrance of our birthdays / Tita Lacambra-Ayala, (p.66) -- The garden of serenity / Jaime L. An Lim, (p.68) -- The fight / Noli Manaig, (p.70) -- In a time of plague / Mike Maniquiz, (p.72) -- Meat cuts / Maria Cristina Martinez, (p.74) -- Bicycle / Francis L. Martinez, (p.76) -- Watchers and trainers / Myrna Peą-Reyes, (p.78) -- Woman of many voices / Danton Remoto, (p.80) -- Mountain afternoon / DM Reyes, (p.82) --

The sounds I dream / Isabelita O. Reyes, (p.84) -- Lost boy / Melissa S. Salva, (p.87) -- Neighbor's thoughts upon seeing the visitor from Lu-Sung / Alice M. Sun-Cua, (p.89) -- The sadness of the sea / Ramon Sunico, (p.91) -- Vigan: images of exorcising / Doris Trinidad, (p.95) -- The woman who talks to trees / Melecio F. Turao, (p.97) -- Neferti T. / Precioso Villareal, (p.98) -- Sons asleep / Alfred A. Yuson, (p.99) -- SHORT STORIES: The homing Mandarin or, after the first death there are others / Jaime An Lim, (p.109) -- Flakes of fire, bodies of light / Carlos Ojeda Aureus, (p.127) -- Who loves to lie with me / Carlos Cortes, (p.151) -- Penmanship / Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., (p.157) -- Games / Noelle Q. De Jesus, (p.172) -- Elevator / Ma. Romina M. Gonzalez, (p.176) -- In the twilight / NVM Gonzalez, (p.181) -- Rosa / Nerisa del Carmen Guevara, (p.185) -- Document / Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak, (p.190) -- Tattoo / Angelo Amado Lacuesta, (p.194) -- Hunting season / Ino Manalo, (p.201) -- Gypsies in my world / Norma O. Miraflor, (p.213) -- Horror ride / Zarina P. Natividad, (p.226) -- Love me tender / Charlson Ong, (p.235) -- The apartment / Clinton Palanca, (p.251) -- A silent room in a happy valley / Nadine L. Sarreal, (p.263) -- I see my shadow on the pavement / Lakambini Sitoy, (p.268) -- Forever a couch potato / Felice Tusi, (p.288) -- A passing life / Katrina P. Tuvera, (p.296) -- Bad thing / Marianne Villanueva, (p.305) -- Junior starfish and the rainbow / Alfred Yuson and Mirava M. Yuson, (p.314)