Salt and Sugar Fields

Some memories stay the way salt stays in the air long after the sea is out of sight.

Set between the coast and the cane fields of Negros Occidental, Philippines, this collection follows the seasons of growing up, growing apart, and growing into the lives we never expected to live. Through poems of friendship, distance, harvests, classrooms, departures, and homecomings, Salt and Sugar Fields explores what remains after people leave, after years pass, and after dreams take different shapes.

This is not a love story.

It is a story about what love leaves behind.