Ariel Riveros-Pavez
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Floating B
The clouds as nests disperse and stretch leewards across terrain anticipating shadow sheets of shades across streets a flash of dark for a second and a degree celsius less mask and veil for the sun by season saving or savaging… Continue reading
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Floating A
The waterline holds me immersedthe broads of my torsoa terraced rice paddy in summera buoy cast to the heads the water in me is layeredin a pastiche of light palimpsest of heatlight viscosity of light honey from a deep wellcomplexist… Continue reading
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Dervish Entries
A diary of daysentries filledwith hallucinatory dancescoil unfoldedwith gold dust for sweat step by five stepby eight steplike flightless birdswe’ve migrated by footto an island between me and you caught tangleyour curve swungbetween the trapezeof joys in a half lightyoung… Continue reading
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Passacaglia
The pale tablature of an early morning jots the cracking caws of bird jabber echolocating back to nest through to branch back to nest in a jumping flap of feather flashed clockwork to a ray when the sun bursts so… Continue reading
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Walk
Rerouted footpaths the sun’s passacaglia on the stuck asphalt I smell the sea and I’m in the suburbs making praise on the day tearing up the street the earthmovers and the jackhammers banished of historical trove no need to disturb… Continue reading
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Late night wind squall – Kandos (written December 2012)
Outside Jaques Sta black canyonopened throughpainted window frames on the streetan immense passageplayed dotted ravinestattooed with crotchetslike Woodstock’s dream and Snoopy sleepswith a typewritercomposes paper planesflying Con Aircircling a shapeless runway Continue reading
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In Transit to Kandos #1 (for Melanie Khava, written Dec 2012)
The incredible vanityof Pictishculture its becoming-death just the sameas Tex-Mex folklore of skalds and skulls Valorisaiton of vintageand sage, rage sentimentawash in feastof desolate Germaniaits seeds, lores and nomos The worldso the sayhas never been modernyet pulses In shimmering distinctionthe… Continue reading
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Cage
Paint peeled off the barsrattle tattle tatramrod straitskeeps motion squared Continue reading
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Telescopy
The astronomer’s brainis full of quoted starscharted by clusters potential pulsedand pouring down to thefeet of Orion all blue-white splashed belt whippingaround the sky planisphere of the observed through night desert glasswe peek into the greater roomby a concrete dome… Continue reading
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A mended fever
The fire fedstayed within breaksgave glow hugged to uneasewithout furylaid low likecloud descending to fog pacing like wavesover bodiesin fabricated epidemicssmoked sage by saga the fume riseschimneyed through cavitiesit stitches a time in ninelives for a cat’s hiss and the… Continue reading
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