long bear

li vid s ink

s weat t

roubles a

sleep a roar

a a dawn

breaks b R

aches

wet bed

dim slaw

facial p eel

s peak a h

ole a O

v oid o vi d

before the clalm

is it ch isn ot

por tal e

mist eri oso

REVES

Sever a wall with a hair

Sever a hair with a wall

Place yesterday's pants on a ladder

Place a ladder on yesterday's pants

Lick the gravel with a fork

Lick a fork with the gravel

Eye the wind with your hand

Eye your hand with the wind

Choose your water or today

Choose today or your water

Open a floor in a word

Open a word in a floor

Dry a pool with a pencil

Dry a pencil with a pool

File a suitcase with a tongue

File a tongue with a suitcase

Drain your tooth in a book

Drain a book in your tooth

Scissor a sandwich with a phone

Scissor a phone with a sandwich

Walk a turd across a hall

Walk a hall across a turd

Drink a thunder from a pocket

Drink a pocket from a thunder

Incinerate a bed under a finger

Incinerate a finger under a bed

Lose a fog above a key

Lose a key above a fog

Empty a suit with a sleep

Empty a sleep with a suit

Name your face with a shovel

Name a shovel with your face

Dry the water with a nail

Dry a nail with the water

Close a stone with a flashlight

Close a flashlight with a stone

Break a door in a faucet

Break a faucet in a door

Boil a chair beneath a sneeze

Boil a sneeze beneath a chair

Ignore a mouth with a shirt

Ignore a shirt with a mouth

SEVER

la leche gastada

the narrow alley in your hand

holds a fork a wind swirls

from garbage cans holds a

texto CARNE INFLADA

mutters in your pocket

lesser throat greater vacuum

is a luncheonette filled with

hair a cat washes your face c

rumbly with the arc of rats and tofu

LUNCH SWEAT )))milk or time(((

dog falls down the steps

rool

lipid comb your

gnoty p lace a

root thrum

isisisisisisisi

a sq ualling b

each more

ch arred gulls

just my dog

your breath a

cloud neck

b idder ffog

in yr vasion's

it sl it a

drum wwind

soap bb oil

f lag l int

er vention

/~ /~ /~

sin pensarlo

a brimming hive's a leaf

lawn circles a wall un eco

asombrado en el garage ,cómete

las radios enigmáticas mapa

de insectívoros y facsímiles

de gutters' sleep-streaked dust a

hologram of water tree of

bees or engines coughing in

your homophones ¡las momias!

¡los ríos! caosmáticos en el

oxígeno de tu taladro y

palma poemática :son tenedores

en la barranca atestada de pirámides

Climbing out of Ivan Argüelles' “Mi Casa”

and “The Rediscovered Poem”

wind tube

leapt across the fog no

left hunga ,log

indensity ,tubular ,and

sees all nothing ,he

aving cr ate a frosty

hh air ,'s ticky ch

eese an drooling on

a bow's blank written

clown sin cara ,b

lowed a way a

long the water

fog hung crate

ticking cheese

cara

issaid

pomade yr dribbly snore

retains to frame your stilling

burger lined with carpet

is your aftasleep what music!

ease of flood frontispiece a

book of nails and ghosted

hammers ,complex of a

postal drain behind your

sleep ,write an awful

is what throat retries wh

at th roat reretries or

wakes the same lung pillow

swelling on the windowsill

.walk out walk in walk past

walk spilled

bloody arm

dim

right light

uh neck defenestration

pillow

mull the cut void your t

ale read in yr eyes

was moon tomorrow's

anima pillow twitches

fire between yr

toes' hot seeds words

clumb darker from yr

pointed hand

on soap with ants

don't cough A

CRAWLING TREE es

jueves ,César ,y siempre el

12 de octubre ,come que

come yr bowl of night y

siempre son el jueves

de los dientes s e c r e t o s

After Jim Leftwich's “Thursday”

not is

bis snense nor

d rank form

reclouted amb

orine ,is esh

bus ted end

a blurt

a nester c

lod

sheep less

mort al sod

a hem a haw

butt ws de

ad mistive

een an eat

hore stall

eent dest

ah caw craw

/ / / / /

agrowth

dust sh

adow le

ap into yr

p ants

agrief

clóset sumergido

- For Bibiana Padilla Maltos

& Mary Jo Bole

edgeless in the suit of grime

your leaky faucet thinks its

moon a yellow auto was a lake of

blood you sit the shore long for

chapulines you will eat last week

WHAT DAY RETURNS or letter

crowded in your soup your slimy

screen your rain your rain your

name whistled round a corner

where a nest explodes implodes

tu esencia inesencia tu silla

ahogada en el río it's

your toilet is the throne of time

El tiempo se vuelve 1 meteorito humano

- Mario Santiago Papasquiaro

FERMATA

DREAM A STONE BREAKS A DREAM

LOOM QUARTZ MOUTH LINT LOOM

EAT THE FORK SCAT LINT YOU EAT

FACE CONGEALED A HOT DOOR FACE

STUNG MILK SHUT ARM STUNG

“fermata, quartz, milt, scat, congealing”

- Tom Furgas -

flood of moons

- For C. Mehrl Bennett

the dream of seeing your

parents' basement through a

hole in the driveway

representative of a foaming

,lack of ,chase a lung wh

at columbine gurgles in a

ear a n ear a ear ly snake~ish

sm eared into yr sandwich :my

fellow comb your swallow's ch

ittering air swirls in the

attic lengua p ants st

icky was the tide's gone

out a penciled shadow

and your fought fake lake

is a beehive murmuring in

the wall you sleep against

your hand held in

wind ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

mud brick palace melts be

fore a mountain wiitz your

speaker's name or antihistamine a

cup of gravel and urine

blk

scr a wl eg

limptner ch ain g loss

tu olvido era ,de

caminar por una playa car

mesí y sumar la arenasca

filtre

)your swea

ty shirrt

(((

caps aweigh

dr ink

daw h

um uh

whiffled ear

should neck

short a

mile d

d rim

bas t ante

lento ni

ojo hole

br reach a

f ist br

eath ah

g nat *

sungg s

nail unh

bag s nore

)( )( )( )( ) (

viento mutitudinario

of itching is the gravel

shivered down the alley is your

spine turning in its grave a

bomb spititttts yr chest

corrosion science and a book

gargled out the slack of

dawn your hair asleep

beneath the bed was

itching was a soup of

dust and shattered glass

was the air ausente de

tu piel tu piel transpar

ente sin cerebro mas que

piensa y repiensa que no

recuerda más nombre que

itching picazón was sh

rieking l ight was not hing

recumbered was your

laundry tumbled through a muddy field

o mutitud k abla ñoñerías

H

asliver wwent you

h able knotty

was it off

rimal sou p

s p oon lake yr fortress

shadow cLIMBs mind yr

lloss in wwind stticks sw

irlling on a beach was your

mouth faucet o p en next

thursday dream an p

lunges in a gas can's

nonostril ffog ,use your

,dot ape ,sloven shirt

unended is the basement

wall colla pp sed is the

hole's muddy water

key sauce

7 people wearing bowler hats

is a silent wind blowing through a

flooded bathroom headache d

rips from windowsill ,outside a

dark red sun setting ,,,leaves ex

plode a tree or birds

CRAW CRAW CRAW

)the ear's polyp hears a

stone tongue's water s

leep b illows outlined

syllables hidden under a

rusty lawnmower – misreading

Ivan Argüelles' The Destruction

of Poetry(

of a locked bus is an automated

dentist office the chair a hangar

empty of planes

written on green paper a

pocket of coins and dirt on red

paper a flashlight falls out a window

)dirt fills bathtub

sleeping lawn

bird ( ( ( ( ( (

changed my b read in

habitation change the

liver leaking in my hat

keys gleam in bucatini my eyes

swim and sleep in sauce

even the hills

sea a gape a latch bit

broke a tooth dwindles

in grammar and noisy

ash .the islands clatter

in their steel sand bards

sin mente evaporation a

sleep and reading on the

wet stone lintels

nose

sea ash

a steep truth

Soaked in Ivan Argüelles'

“The Unnamed Poem”

walk in the light

foot laugh it

pause and how

L ate leg what's

left a fuming door

dog's paws writ a

cloud a name a tooth

linty in a stung shoe

)same's floaty lexicon(

test of numbered sun

2 one 2 drained he

adache fer mentation

)forking glue a kitchen

drain trap's

sullen mind a belch

faster gas than moom(

)if moon were hair(

step off livid shadow