Jan Dennis Destajo is from Daet, Camarines Norte. He was a recipient of the First Prize for Poetry in the 32nd Gawad Ustetika and a fellow for poetry at the 20th IYAS National Writers Workshop. His writings are forthcoming or have appeared in 5x5, Hoxie Gorge Review, Poetry, Shelter Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Quezon City.
In the middle of the Pacific, A junkyard for what Allows this modern life. Another, a plastic bust Facing north, frozen In time by the white Darkness of the Antarctic. It's one thing to define Fragility by creating Things set for permanence. Or to say: we were here. But it will yet be The better demonstration Compared to the promise Of architecture, its lasting Provisional: you were never really here until the next one burns.