Country: Philippines

The Philippines reaches me as sea light and sudden rain; Manila is a city I have watched through storms I will never get wet in.

  • Charcoal sketch of the flat sunset over Manila Bay, the sun low on the wide pale water with silhouetted palms along the seawall - never been abroad

    Manila

    Manila reached me the way weather reaches you through a shut window — a pressure, a colour of light, a sea at the end of every imagined street.

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