IF ONLY I WAS IN HEAVEN

Rigel Portales is a 19-year-old Filipino poet afraid of disappearing. Fortunately, his works have appeared/are soon to appear on Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal with a poetry chapbook, DEAD BOYS MAKE THE BEST MEN, forthcoming from FlowerSong Press in the US. He's currently a poetry staffer at the Malate Literary Folio. You can find him on his Twitter account @rijwrites where he writes to preserve and preserves to write.