T H E E T C.

John M. Bennett - April-May 2022

the etc.

the end's bread hole

the clinging window smoke

the slobbered face wind

the black wall voice

the swim's gloom born

the knotting ice hand

the fingered tooth cloud

etc.

shot clod

it 's h

ot hair

flavor boil

my icy drool

savored , eye

if it

is a shore

your mud

deflaccid

was

reckless rice

complete , frayed

a forest ran

pus flight

your flagging sleep

is meat you said

mi sed intextina

be es

correction spilled away

your breakfast dreams

invade the lung

you tumbled wide

ahora sweating

abejas hay

aformismos

lungless fell

yr burning back

is ever was

un note

un nerve

un name

snore file

it's a tool load

heavy than air

is ever could

was never wood

a pool

any wave

many floor

one or none

specimens

sleep imitation

absent key

circle crevice

grasses

long ruminants

eye silence

wheel devoured

chaos sphere

glass sheet glue

Samples hidden in Iván Argüelles'

“The Rumor of Sleep”, April 2022

orilla

end fork arm

rise boil

cling tored

eve sky

de tail crumbles

voice remains

lumenludicrous

but still

's lake re

tains nest dr

owned yr

ear sings'

ferment

luz enfrente

labio dormido

estormudo es

grillos del ojo

es timón

es trueno

es tuerca

suerismo

boca abierta

diente y sombra

ya no habre

dor matada

thunder leak

sweat stool or

plashing

yr thumb under

soil roiling

it clung

it

ojo L

it door

it erate

it ch

arf , shoe

single •

a f f f f f

eck tless wind

mouth pool

yr fermentation

fis

flood stain you

sock demember

a spore your

spill absorbed

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“Al escribir sabemos que hay algo muy

importante que decir con respecto a la

realidad, y que tenemos ese algo al alcance,

allí nomás, muy cerca, en la punta de la

lengua, y que no debemos olvidarlo. Pero

siempre, sin falta, lo olvidamos.”

- Eduardo Halfon, El Boxeador Polaco, 2016.