Just this morning I found myself
fixing my umbrella. It rained
last night. I thought of how some things break
not from use, but from waiting—
how even umbrellas grow tired
of being folded, forgotten,
until the weather remembers them.
Raymond Ybañez is a resident of Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. He was a fellow of the 10th Palihang Rogelio Sicat and 7th Angono National Summer Writers Workshop.