robes thinking painted

robes thinking painted bees face

B'alam wraps three arms hanging

face untied eagle covering stings image

painted defeated scratchers nature

kill shields Jaq'awitz words made

sleep capture road slept sense eyebrows

metal neck plucking deceivers stakes

pointed effigies entreated gourd hornets

entreated murderers spied yelling break

blood smoke opened stinging swarm

chopped wood wives died tormented

insects entered faces named instructions

sick words sons burial light mirror

lose sign sweep existence stitches

created disappeared glory bundled

wrapping names left died father

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nevertheless consume

nevertheless consume the power knots

naked matter bubble toppling eyes

rock grammar wheel arms hard white

waist cavities honey mind flung arms

language shuts hours air lamp bed

pock-marked refrigerators bed units

preterite dark ate us bees shopping

bosom selves a hill how hair ink

snake dawn chill things crept secret

distance letter mirror it be yet learn

bark flung headache eats remains

the traffic brick outside the

mountain whirl ascent

De-reading Iván Argüelles'

“The Shape of Air, Fragment 5”

nadeante

al asco ríes tanteado es

pan arcilla de tus motes

mortiferontes simón que

lijas pan de piedra es vis

aje agua ntada un g

üentífero o viento seco si

lencio que me sopla un no

nombre insombreado rete

sivisible agujero tanto

tumba que entiende lo nada

fog lunch

and lunch in chains spit moon

)skin ,cigars( mist sw

irls in bowl shade cracks

ants sill dim wall toaster

grave l and a tower shrieks

falling bricks' some time

ends plate turns over

black behind mirror

slab tongue eugnot cho

pper hand ají immersed d d

slaw en neck each throt

tling hand's different

)))in the quiet place scat

tered together brick ants tongue(((

snore way

- RIP Steve Dalachinsky

slumped meat on stage l

ight f lares down a

rabbit c lumps slow on

boards )~)wind swallows

thru trees ~ ~ ~(~ ( ~ (

choked leg falls from mou

th is b read on fire on

dock pollen writes s s

water≈ ≈ ≈ it's yr mess

age back t urned liquid

smoke see ps out crac ked

jjar yr jjaw yr wajj yr ajjw

yr empty snore s

tumbled thru what dark

meat ,water ,sleep

tell them therefore

tell them therefore seven death ball

arrives arm skull protectors arrow leg

wings skull owl words death framed

jaundice backpack died flute write

mother descends steps mouths names

rivers stung drank pus four roads

effigies laughed bench burned

sitting cramp burns house sleeping

cigars round dark shattered torch

entered cold teeth it b'alam

bats clatter house then that buried

also head burns tzima tree

calabash and heart watch steps

this now she was blood heard

said cut lost skull branch spoke

hand spit spit skull merely son

speech ruiner in word enter said

thunder sudden home spit gathered

blood moon name gathered

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smothering moon

smothering moon but air grief

sleep did nothing body ceases

matter's grammar abyss launched

consonants' glass error pages dice

mist driven aphasia room huis clos

horse confusion massive air porous

sound of parking meters flux dia

lect drunk ants float off an asphalt

leaf moonphone clatters on concrete

bridge glittering skin of Lebanon

gold books or mind dryer sinking

fusion finger of Aleppo heaving

in fire engineers and accidents were

air less sky less moth prediction

De-reading Iván Argüelles'

“The Shape of Air, Fragment 6”

rat corner entered

rat corner entered house up

mash iik sauce face drained mother

water eat deception did ball behind

jug gasps clawed watch hide path

grand gun mother stomp game

messengers path pursued Xib'alb'a

day heart told them arrival of

weeping itched louse therefore liked

road belly fast toad snake message

swallowed food ahead its rim falcon

hawk cries pellet eye gun grabs surely

eye surface sliced rubber vomit sight

belly drool merely would it then

said deceiver rear squashed backside

pried loose salivates teeth in toad his

mouth defeat speaks message leathers

boys arrived advisors merely throw

he up bones nothing feet his mouth

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metal then arrived

metal then arrived gave breast armpits

not smoke stole bat Tulan moved eat

name came passes blood dark prick sun

good then pierced face sleep honor

swell mountain gathers bottom food

passed through drink maize therefore

stones on sand borne faster top dawn

spoils search back Jaq'awitz mountain

crowded hidden dawn vipers bowels

passed through changed trembles

flat moss hearts forest dawns

face incense glitters wept copal

pumas wings soggy person mirror

within its hiding self biting moon

hearts burned burial then appeared

weeping Yaki trouble change speech

house placed heart mountain difference

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