{"id":1733,"date":"2017-09-20T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2017-10-02T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T03:13:18","slug":"at-giardino-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henrydelrosario.com\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"At Giardino Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"
At Giardino Rossi\r\nbefore I sit to rest,\r\na pair of little boots trip\r\non cobble stones before me.\r\n\r\nSwiftly within a flutter,\r\na tan, domestic hand swoops\r\ndown to scoop the baby\r\nto the comfort of her breast\u2014\r\n\r\nLa passerotta e ang\r\nmayang ina ng bukid\u2014\r\n\r\nFor no more than the glancing\r\nof west and eastward trolleys\r\nour faces meet each other\r\nand mirror the unhid\u2014\r\n\r\nEyes big as the Pacific\u2014\r\nchestnut skin and dark hair same\u2014\r\nMigration takes us far, but\r\naffirms the home within.<\/pre>\n
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  1. Tanaga<\/a> \u2013 a Filipino poetic form of seven phonetic units in four lines, similar to a haiku<\/li>\n
  2. Giardino Rossi – a park we wandered into while visiting Milan, Italy on vacation<\/li>\n
  3. La passerotta e – “The little sparrow and;” passerotta is an Italian term of endearment<\/li>\n
  4. “ang mayang ina ng bukid”<\/a> – “the rice field sparrow mother” in Tagalog<\/li>\n
  5. “maya”<\/a> – a Filipino folk taxon of a common bird seen in the Philippines<\/li>\n
  6. There are 2.2 million overseas Filipino domestic workers worldwide<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The Cost of Caring<\/a> by Rachel Aviv: a story about a Filipino woman going to New York to be a domestic worker<\/li>\n
  8. My Family’s Slave<\/a> by Alex Tizon: a story of a Filipino immigrant to America realizing his family brought their slave from the Philippines<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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