Wind enters
to recite a poem
about a kite
Fish-like
a flying
fish with paper fins and a bamboo skeleton
A draft reads
flying fish
flying paper
fish paper
paper fish
fish flies
Fish Gust
Underside scribbles
fish dream
the foot of a curtain tucked
underneath
a sleeping body
fly-swim, swim-fly
Behind
the curtain
brackish water spill
spell the smell of the estuary
A taste of the roomβs air
The sea is a bus ride away
There fish walk out of the night out
of the water to sleep
on the shore
A kite flies
(burador)
Christian Vistan is Filipino-Canadian artist based in Vancouver and Delta, BC. For this text he translated the Tagalog and Ilocano word burador, roughly translating to a writing draft and kite in Tagalog as well as flying fish in Ilocano.