“A street is a way of watching a movie when you don’t have money. A picture is a happy place of somewhere far enough to think it will be better when you’re there,” writes Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, who muses in this second poetry collection on the city as sites of memory, and photographs as evidence of memory. Through ekphrasis, he furnishes descriptions and stories about Filipinos who lived during the American occupation. The objective is to present selected pictures of ordinary lives as dramatically as possible, perhaps to enrich the experience and add meaning to the gestures, expressions, and perspectives provided. Several natures of a city are ultimately offered, and around these natures people in the tropics move, shape, and define their lives.