Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena

Chopin is on the radio

Such music is rare
in a country
at war

it’s like opening a letter
and finding feathers
in a few words

even my father rises
from his grave
like a lion
and listens

just as I drown
in my sleep

Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena's fourth chapbook, With Different Wars Raging, is forthcoming from Jacar Press. His work has appeared in Poetry Daily, The Bitter Oleander, Osiris, The Columbia Review, The Ocean State Review, Pembroke Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Louisiana Literature, Apalachee Review, and elsewhere. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in the Philippines with his wife and child.