In 2024, I wrote a chapbook called "The Divine Mundane." A collection of fifteen poems meditating on the ways that the luminous divine is present in the everyday. The divine is inextricable from the mundane; they are one and the same thing.

Read the collection here.

Sept 28, 2026

I have been greatly enjoying the transition of the leaves from green to red. Of course, I have never seen anything like it before and the experience of something new leaves me full of hope that I haven't seen everything, haven't experienced everything, haven't felt everything there is for me to feel just yet.

July 14, 2026

It has officially been one week since I moved to the UK. This country is impossible in its beauty, so much so that part of me is convinced that it isn't real. In my mind, I am walking in a daydream, still waiting for morning to come and I'll wake up in my bed at home, Kaz scratching at the door and Milo patiently waiting for me to come out. I miss them very much.

June 4, 2026

Leaving Vigan made my heart heavy; how do I tell everyone just how much they mean to me? How do I evade the shame of vulnerability and boldly tell the people I love that they have changed me in the little big ways that they have shown their kindness?

May 28, 2026

I thought that I've forgotten what it is to focus on a project and actually work at building it every day. I wish the same ardour for my writing, although one never seems to wish these sorts of things away.

May 23, 2026

I am feeling so extremely excited at the prospect of this new frontier. I thought this pocket of the internet was forever lost, and yet here I am. Back at yet another precipice.

Welcome to my site! My name is Theo, I am a poet and a former daydreamer, finding my way back into my dreamscapes. I am 27 years old, married to my favourite person in the world, and I love good, and beautiful things that people make with their hands. I live in the UK, and half of my heart lives in my home, the Philippines.

Please bear with me in setting up this site to be as up and running as I can possibly make it! And to make sure I remember, let me say: this place is not to be the dwelling of perfect, literary writing. This place is for magic and curiosity, and it shall not demand more than it ought.

⛤ Recently watched: Deep End, 1970, dir. Jerzy Skolimowski