2. Rare rain outside The Bay and its windows and skylights and tent flaps.
3. so tired
beat up even, these days, these days i sit on
corner stones
and count the time in quarter tones to ten
4. so i’ll be short.
First site,
Death of a snake
Snake on the head
Does our work reflect that we are so tired
and that loooooong rest is needed that there is an altar to placate mars red peppers that never got cooked on a chipped dish on an ikea step stool?
on a candle the inscribed symbol. ‘masculinity’/’male,’ you know the one arrow/circle x surprising there on the wax
i recently battled them
over fire
right after a snake
un culebrón
una boa puertorriqueña
a Chilabothrus inornatus
shed its skin above me and landed on my
head
True story! ask me sometime if we see each other.
i was looking for shelter in a place
i’ve been away from
to be compromised
in light of everything
UN SER
Difundido
Difuminado
Sumergido
Invitado
Inundado
Invertido
EN LUZ
A BEING
Diffused
Blurred
Submerged
Invited
Flooded
Inverted
IN LIGHT
Again, i say it it has ended
Already!
Wrecked, adrift among rotten, hole-filled posts
so tall, falling over
when the wind blows too hard
Sparks fly from flapping
slapping wires
and we start
a fire.
A woman in Florida
teaches me
from afar
how to shake old Memories out of my low spine
says she used to say
“Some of us” now says “All of us”
when she speaks about trauma.
El bebé huele a manzanilla
por dormir al lado de su papá
cuyo aliento cargaba flores
por haber tomado té
A las 3 de la mañana esa breve transmisión
es lo más hermoso
de todo el universo
en todo su tiempo
The baby smells like chamomile
from sleeping next to their father
whose breath carries flowers
for having drunken tea
At 3 a.m. this brief transmission
Is the most beautiful thing
in all the universe
in all its time
Y así se fue, el fin, hasta que venga otra vez por ahí, así, prendida en llamas, tranquila.
And like that, it passes, the end, until she comes back, alight in flames, chilling.
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