Mother of Pearl
“Mother / was not the first word in my mouth. The word was baba: / meaning, father; meaning, mouth.”
Miguel Barretto García
Miguel Barretto García was born in the Philippines to a mixed-race Chinese and Spanish family. Their poems have appeared or have been accepted in Rattle, wildness, Seventh Wave, harana, the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, among others. They currently live between London and Zurich.