the sleeper’s ear

(root claw) telling ex

perience heaps fixed to

clouds y ese olvido t alks

that social (root cloud) me

diocrity grieves aloud the

clothes que no se ven ah

glass sidewalk reckless un

der the daggers entre la en

ajenación circling sleep rh

etoric from such spurned d

epths (root hair) de lo inper

ceptible flaming trashcans pro

test mil itarized gas oppression’s

mind film white is it a loft?  a

bismándose en el aire?  bro

ckcken lection ,shooting , man

nered eternity hacia un secreto

de pie armed domes tication ,s

idewalk “circling” in an inch of

rust (root shoe) en el vacío del

jacarandá whole cess wor ds di

rect the loam mound de una mel

ancolía mirrored flames spun the

math’s blank sp here desde la me

moria de la nada ref lex loca tions

fl ashing as bestos (root gun) be

tween the lines el mi smo anhelo

sube y sube t urned violence in t

he housing proj ection failed on

the r iver ban k (root ceiling) ,es

e silencio sin tiempo ,riots ,tel

evision uccess lifestyle’s aban

doned s laughter about the hea

vy worm y lo imposible de las

voces designed with indi fference’s

average written passion ,darkened

(root hole) en la más

cara ,consumptive medidas you

forgot to mail ,the veil media

falling apart plum meting like b

lack salt o una ceniza de pedrerías

the letter written spectacle

que solemos perder en el

río que no inmuniza

Made with parts from Jim Leftwich,

Six Months Aint No Sentence, Book 94, 2014;

Ivan Argüelles, “ilion , beta”, 2014; and

Juan L. Ortiz, La orilla que se abisma, 1970.