a tanaga1 for Eritrea (1) we say Kefelhal? to life and taste it like paradise like those Esperanto songs we sing for salutations Lawdenmarc Decamora is the author of two (2) full-length poetry collections and a recently published chapbook: “Love, Air” (Atmosphere Press, 2021), “TUNNELS” (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2020), and “Dream Minerals One” (Ghost City Press, 2022). His poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Seattle Review, The Columbia Review, Peripheries (Harvard U), Mantis (Stanford U), The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, among others. A Pushcart-nominee and Tupelo Press 30/30 Project alum, Lawdenmarc earned his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2014 and has been teaching literature and humanities courses at the University of Santo Tomas since 2016. He lives in Pampanga in the Philippines. 1 A tanaga is an indigenous Filipino nano-poem consisting of a four-line stanza with heptasyllabic lines and interchanging rhyme schemes (e.g., AABB, ABAB).