the silver dialect

all the sea a glass th

umb mumbles in the

zero fork unwritten

neck orifice in yr

linty mirror or rest

less flies dart a

round the mechanical

miasma of your sh

opping list's horizon

mouth's your hand's

aphasia library l

isping choked in the

beginner's insect vor

text curtains drawn

letter pulse were

bulbs about to

burst inside the

uncut pages at a

dusty drugstore lit

tered with x-rays and

chapstick your vom

it whispers in your

throat

Wheezing through Ivan Argüelles'

“lo místico” & “la biblioteca”

4 Inexplicaciones of Dreams of Bibiana Padilla Maltos

la leche

el sueño de la música atonal

era el sueño del tonal que

cantaba tras la cerca de

tunas ,era el sueño del

silencio que te cantaba de

abejas y bonbones y quizá

el sueño era de las estrellas

que deletreaban tu nombre

en el cielo

the tongue

the dream of receiving a text

message is the dream of

a chinche mordiéndote la

axila es el sueño insondable

del silencio en un cubo de

piedras but the cubo de

piedras could never be

the dream of a text mess

age unless the message

were received upside down

the answer

the dream of your Ex ,is it the

dream of your loud pocket ,the

dream of air swirling in your

mouth ,the dream of tunnels in

the back of your hand? is it the

dream clouds disappearing in the

basement? the dream of tuna

salad growing rancid in the fridge?

“y los sueños sueños son”

the dream of jewelry is the

dream of your eyes which

are the dream of coins

pressed against your lids

but that would mean the

dream of eyes is the

dream of waking up in

your sleep which is the

dream of eating a

tasteless hamburger in a

nursing home full of mannequins

anchor

f ell in pee

led face you b

led to me was

window clad in skin

a kite escapes a

book depaginated in

my shoe was all the

throat I crawled toward

you thrumming in a cloak of bees

...p eels the h ill...

eel suit

blblend o' doglight ,bbeast

enbled o pullet chchawed

entide the ssampled

strream ,omlette ss

horn of ss hells ,kkiss

my dork ah cancel

lation ! )beach in

fog( a noblight cr

awling up the sh

ore :::ender flag

,bullet roof ,meater

where the face tr

ancelucent buys my

hora ,cacareo de mis

dedos ttappping in

ner clo set (wall's

the ffinal ffork

. . .

ni modo ,dije

boc a serrada ser

rín fofonético ccon

lo ddijo lo que dije

through the dike a

gua intonsurada to

tonta el cierre ox

idado la puerta en

jajaras fascinículo

del sansilencio

le lac

num b

pla card

loot

“rising shoe”

L’ombre était transparente...

- Alfred de Vigny

it was hang ing

mist and laundry’s

sky bent ,swallowed

fashion or a wire

hanging off a trunk

of spines labor in

the rain the rain of

ice and sand your

spinal leg invasion

some ants some

dogs

leapt from your neck

foco de mi tos nasal o

boca rendida de una

palabrita de una pala

brota unicamino

pie uniconejo que darts

among the trees your

scrotal knife sprays

the palms

the wall the sweat the

bog of light

rice churns in the muddy ditch

la sopa convexa la

lengua circular las

tostadas risibles de

tu merienda inmortal

ah praps op the spoon

reflejo de mi cara ya

tomada ,brebaje use

less as yr lentes len

tes reticuladas s

tuck to the bottom of the

bowl

the foggy mouth

the dream of hotcakes is your

dream a circular highway

described for hours a

throat a s ticky chi n

inha le the black the

b lack ex haust

dice an form ,boil the forgotten hand

To make hotcakes in your dream...

- Bibiana Padilla Maltos

yr dripping lake

empty nostril emp

ty nost rum or

de luciérnagas av

ión dis t ante mi

ojo perdido el o

jo encontrado en

las carnes del

supermercado don

de mi nalga donde

mis nal gas olina

furtive cloudsds

crawl my shirt

suitably thorned

no numbers sweating

wonder bread the

pages of yr book in

testive swallowed

knob just up

stairs just shoulder

all the dribbly

ones division of

the wall derision

of yr sangwich

lunch forgotten

on yr car's rusty roof

Más y más inexplicaciones de los sueños de Bibiana Padilla Maltos

el ala

el sueño de los pájaros es

un sueño de toneladas de

madera la madera el sueño

de pajaracos que son el

sueño de árboles caídos

los árboles caídos son el

sueño de un zopilote que

se dormita en tu recámara

con la madera mojada

de tus sueños

la tierra

el sueño de tu casa en la

Avenida Reforma es el

sueño del túnel por los

huesos del lago es el

sueño del cielo escrito

con humo y es el sueño

de una choza invertida

en el monte de chapulines

con murallas de agua

las obras completas

the dream of being on a roof

is the dream of bees

circling the chimney

is the dream of

sky filled with

water the water the

dream of my face be

neath your face which

is the face of Augusto Monterroso

pl under

bo ludo or aptless r

abbit bound was last

to rend the sin ging

,singed or t raced le

singe de bateless gri

nding fog ,or fog was

loot if loot w ere

socks filled wit s

hoes whe re fee

t s' ever intu bation

,y tu rata rato sonreía

.so c lean so ,ful

minoso ,y tu me

depantaloneado has

,if pantsless meant

no legs .pendejo y

pendiente soy ,y

no sé si es pero

chee

I inc hes felt m

y f allen dar k e

ye k nown yr f

laggy fac e s ed

de lumex ,s torm

y es ni ff la

tulent ni pe

santez bu t es

no es mi mu

ertre ,in re

lapsent wha t

er fog not s

aid it's g

urgling inn er

c ouch

on eh cou ch

e w al king m eat

the consonant stuck

on the slope died where

slope was tubes writ

hing from a pillow or

the laundered stones cr

acking in the suffixes'

passed air across the

sheet's blinding lang

uage like the sea of

lyrics eaten so the

letters would coughed

up be downside up a

mirror of burning

teeth as teeth were

boulders camera in

dexed in your fingers

fell across limp your

hand held your eye

vibration in the half-

remembered movie theater

when the lights closed down

While circling through Ivan Argüelles'

“trobador” & “memory of light”

3 Inexplicaciones of Dreams of Bibiana Padilla Maltos 3

el bostezo

el sueño del alba es el

sueño del albañil que se

dormita en la tina la

tina no será el sueño

de los libros de cordel

sino el sueño de tu

cara en una bolsa de

henequén la bolsa fué

el sueño olvidado del

sueño inútil de los

zapatos gastados

the fish

the dream of your children was

the dream of your lunchmeat

covered with hair it's the

dream of a doorway open to the

heat while the air conditioning

streams out the dream of the

heat is the dream of many

hands caressing your chest and

the dream of a motor

humming low in a basement

the interpretation

the dream of your mother-in-law

is the dream of finding your

place in the checkout line the

line is your dream of sleep in a

kitchen full of cigarette smoke the

smoke the dream of knowing

something certain but having

no idea what it is

pork lint

cage hell o void

conslabination ww

obbly w as piration

exinhaltion o f

loppy ffloppyyy f   L   L

enfocar

en plosive f lake re

crud ent ire flat 'n

flabby for the wwords

bust out the bbland

dog bladder than

yr traje caspa g

runty center pues

y )¿qué? ¿te crees Xiuh

tecuhtli?( the water

quiets out quiets

out is glasssssssssssssssssssssss

espejo de grava.............

the squirrels of sleep

are books yr flying

leg a touch comp act

ion was the br ick yr

arm was crumbly

or yr b read ed mouth re

gruged the lipid for

K ay my Knot in

haled my jumpy leg and

dead one once

the eye was read is

now it's char and

oozy falling out

the tree

...ape ,or ate...

3 Inexplicaciones of the dreams of Bibiana Padilla Maltos

la piedra del sol

the dream of the school principal

is the dream of forgetting the

dream of the circular calendar

the calendar's the dream of

yesterday happening tomorrow

and tomorrow's the dream of a

squirrel chewing a plastic bag

and speaking the language of Jiminy Cricket

la puerta

the dream del acensor es

el dream de paja scattered

inna wind es el sueño del

saber lo que es la nada

la nada's the dream of

blowing the ash off a

spoon the spoon's your

dream of sleep next to a

lime green goat in a party hat

el desayuno

el sueño de la plaza es

el sueño de un torbellino

de lenguas las lenguas

el sueño de la niebla

que sube del lago y el

lago ¡o lago! el sueño es

del ser nunca conocido

que conoces a fondo

como un plato de chilaquiles

hhushh

dArk cave was had

nor neck reburnished

suit nor ffork in

had a was the he

avy meat flo pped

out yr close et s

uch light was b

lind such lightht

wore blind the l

l amps reburned

.e ver fog regrent

eve r sot relinktion

)was the algae( were

yr hand strokes

upon the wall

|...wwall ,nap kin...

“isn't”

face in the urinous st

raw half leg's lost yr

epecac's refueled yr

long lapsed snore or sp

spatttered notebook was

yr flood hand touched yr

cheek cloud te bajas

la vista al regazo

bright with ants .b

burn off yr shirt was n

nodded out strong

shot f lavor labrar la

boca ,boboca que te

narra la nada que nada

por all that “is”

3 Inexplicaciones of dreams of Bibiana Padilla Maltos

el aperitivo

el sueño de cantar canciones

cursis fué el sueño de

olvidar tu nombre el sueño

de olvidarte el nombre es el

sueño de cantar canciones

cursis que son el sueño de

haberte olvidado el nOmbre

the snore

the dream of the net is

the dream of a poem

made of potato peelings

the dream of peelings is

the dream of the is it

the dream of the swallowed

the dream of the surface

seen from below the sur

face of the sea covered with plastic bottles

the spoon rest

el sueño de despedir a alguien

no es el sueño de tu mano

sino el sueño de tu mano

vestida con hierbas que

no es el sueño de la

torta bañada en salsa

sino el sueño de tu camisa

llevada al revés que no

es el sueño de la puerta

con su tecolote de plástico y

una rodaja enorme de queso