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  • Prose: Scar Scry by Ariel Riveros

    The scar is often metaphor for tender life experience displayed. Encompassing the badge of courage and of simple indelible unhideable fact. The prior wounding turns over like a motor. The scar here has compression and linear power. A motor without… Continue reading

  • Poem: Belong to the anthemic

    Belong to the anthemic the confabulation the fabric and observation of rule and its flexing and propriety and the I made it through What about you? I slide between the cracks of external and public.   The good life is… Continue reading

  • Poem: Frontal Aside by Ariel Riveros

    A face can’t display divisions multiplying the decanate visiting in volume, flooding a room and request for response. They will bare teeth roughly to bite. They will melt like gold, they will observe, picking like quick pincers pinching across green… Continue reading

  • Prose: Seroquel Pornstar by Ariel Riveros

    The undecidable sparkle of neck to temple to mouth roof and hair over the eyes. The meteoric dust and the factory pharmaceuticals, all signatories observed. Take the risk lightly without boon or swearing on life support itself. Desiring sans topology… Continue reading

  • Poetry: White Walls by Ariel Riveros

    Here I haven’t written because I scratch Not familiar With alcohol’s belly And local fine credit Even among the finest of those who wander my side of the wall. Im soaked through with antiseptic for years, for the forces in… Continue reading

  • Poem: Block Lyric by Ariel Riveros

    Written in winter to establish a history that does well without me but invite you for treaty of long course, divot-love presumes green, bank, sand. Landings were society walls and line perfects. The difference why I won’t weep, the west… Continue reading

  • Poem: Chirotext by Ariel Riveros

    Gather prior letters loosen from surrounds crack goes chains of significance. Meaning’s calcium relaxes the muscle the jellied mass of body still and swollen reassemble to stretch another grasp and form. Tiny explosions dissolve a ready paste for next pass… Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Caste, Colony, Diaspora and the Latin American baroque

    A propos of identifying Pardo heritage in country of origin am acquainting myself with Afro Antillean poetic genre, LusoHispanic, negroidisme, and the historical baroque. My Francophile leaning always wonders on the notion of nomadism and return most especially as literarily… Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Time Clinical/Academic

    Clinical scene: a strong light blue LED torch is flashed in my face as if I were part of a surveyed lineup. I am later asleep and the nurse staff wield the torch unlit. I turn one side and the… Continue reading