the short

sweetness in the plunger h

am is cornered with the

dust plunged in shadow’s

mouth the dripping bee s

leeping on a rugged wall d

ripping through yr dust

was words reinhabited

outside the rippling leg e

merging from my mouth

grotto filled with jars and

water where the legs are

cleaned where the honeyed

map returned all paths

to park

                             the load

  

el ojo comido

y los sesos del cielo  tu sombra

son el recuerdo con que camin

abas por la calle en que cam

inabas por el camino que una

jaqueca es es un viento de

automóvil ,móbil por la b

risa que la página central

de tu librito es página de

hoja fermentada que tu fé

mur dormido es ,lugar de

piedras ,con texto ,piedra y

habladuría en el túnel menos

pensado ,sesos concientes o

in- ,sesos fritos ,con chile

,con su ajo y jitomate ,)))las

nubes son

y la forma del túnel es  ))es piedra enterrada((

  

la tina

slowly slew ,when cow

ered in the ,brim filled

tub ,the quad rant limbs’

4 sentidos indicantes

,el quinto plugged ,an

arm upraised de sangre

ahogado ,los ojos ,sin

lentes ,vacantes ,the

dripping wall’s reflection

in the mirrored door’s up

turned al arac on

atreipsed’s waking ,ha

lfway toward the st

reaming faucet the pass

age blind ,the holeless

spider

...spi der vi per cli ent gi ant i tem i cy spi ral...

-McGuffy’s Ecelctic Spelling Book, ca. 1879

el salto

T

o

T

ec

lado

la

P

iel

que canta que habla

)))la llave en el

lago

perdida(((

the fingers

you must shape the doggèd

cloud the KNOT lake the

emphysema of yr cat K

NOT big focus KNO T c

loud g lanced KN OT

the faucet rippling in the

night KNOTKNOT usage

information where yr KNOT

laundry clogs KNOT the

toilet faucet K NOT re

flective in the KNOT mu

rror must you KNOT make

,incendio a menudo ,b

lack KNO T fog ))and a

clambering foco

...h iss...

 

the rolodex

louder hall and debt so

louder hinge inside your

arm debt coiling in the

polar vortex or the housing

index burning in the hall

was motion toward the

river and the itching

index in your eye was

ledger bonfire falling

from the window bon

fire knotted in your

solar plexus solar

plexis was your clou

ded river

...sea ,the swelling.

the sweating lake

short clock LEG the

war ning gas oline the LEG

sock the bed’s dim lint a

faltered LEG snore LEG

itimate clowner in the ch

ained afternoon LEGLEG

crawls from the bank st

ained with plasma LEG ex

halation as the hands click o

ff the LLEG LLEGada ha

,a la puerta LEGG broken

por la tarde broken LE  G

the bloat thieves left L  EG

of’s LEGless tripled thief

squirming on the steps

...$$...

  

the bring

enter wheeze the water

wind the blobber scam

you bratted in the

wheezy stream en

gaged the spoken b

lob a withered fork a

troubled net a comb

wheezing in its hair

should ,it

the swells

ACKACK nnneck shorter th

an ACKACK felt the lung sh

ore an ACK an off the

ACK ton sardine floppy on

yr ACKACK bagel what I

sw allowed ACK an swall

ow ACKACK net of eyes

sees it’s going d own it’s

ACKtify it’s ACKtivate it’s

“triple” time ACK T ACK

poking through my pockACK

et emporate ACKACK an

clawing at my lunch ACK

smears the mirror sweat ACK

told the last shirt ACK

or ACKACK or ACKnchor

the sticky change left in

yr pants

dikdik

la colina

as piration ,the sol

id comb the ,aspi

ration aspi rina f

ading thru the com

b you c hew the

aspirina’s h air the

coughing leg’s raised

before your facial air

o che w the faci

al sing ulation son

deada de tu tos tu

leg al t heft jus

t try to kick the

coughing face

...embadurnado de...

the rabbits

failing this ,yr shorter lout

inhabits will inhabit was the

shortcut layers in your shorts

are inside out was fill with

sand and shorter hairs the

layers will and fountain’s

sand mailed across the g

lobe will burn the hair your

knotted feet were what

lout will say the week

returns the shortest hairs

were what you’re spitting

out yr mouth

“on the way”

s  nack

hunch  a  cross  the

c   o   r   n

the fog was mute

cricket and cracker jack

  

I was?

I was mailing my face I

was drawling the list I

was crumbling on the bed

I was not an inch I

was coughing the phone I

was dripping on my shirt

I was not the soup I

wandered off

the combustion

este cristal aguarda the

white sea’s foamy st

airs lo bruto por boca s

wept the stilled fog sin

dientes the bright dream es

te cristal es pan disappearing

no venido piled in the dust

incandescent imagination

cuando lo fuerzan on the

flaming stage que ya no

tiene cariños animales bur

ning again y toma la horma

de los sustantivos plastered

on the wall wandering ink del

individuo incoloro pasado

overhead drilling the ears

y no dáse por ninguno de

los x-rayed ashes del cos

tado del spare intention

of the buried wood que por

boca venidera es shattering

the mown distances y en

cuanto transparencia es

silence sin dientes opposing

gravities y márchase a

hora fled from the park

Emerged from Ivan Argüelles,

“De rerum natura”, 2014, &

César Vallejo, “XXXVIII”, de

Trilce, 1922

the spit

bill ,an nneck a ,a ppill

‘’laundered ,b leak inflat

uation of yr ,plod tomb

.softer swell ,uh uh t

emple full of rice Worms

,yr p lunger ,boat sunk

,flagging clown where the

seat re jects the ,uh the

,twirling in the supermarket

                  “knotty beast  W   w