Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, In Between Tongues intelligent

intelligent

family and new marriage

with moving accuracy

makes the image of the last two lines so startling: “silence” this “strange animal” brought so lovingly back from the grave

“In writing I try to cover a diverse range of topics while writing about issues that I have experienced

Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, In Between Tongues intelligentIn Between Tongues by Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, the tongue is both muscle and metaphor, an implement of desire and an instrument of language. Reckoning with the archipelagic Philippines and the island nation of Singapore, with the past and the present, with origin and destination, the poet negotiates the boundaries between the two through a perpetual act of code switching, gaining mastery in sleep (awed, that I had spoken my language fluently) or in