Ariel Riveros Pavez

Ariel Riveros-Pavez

  • A strike of birds – metapoetry

    I walked with a friend today who made note about noisy birds – she used the hackneyed term “cacophony” of birds. Some poets love simple commonalities, some economy, and some baroque rarity. I like simplicities but something where a device… Continue reading

  • A draft prelude to Poetry After Extinction.

    A bit of ambition though I do not know if I am up to it: creating a series of works under the rubric of “poetry after extinction”. Much like a time capsule that looks back to the populated earth and… Continue reading

  • Letter

    I welcome you from the scorn of seas from barracks and shacks from not enough and ill health I feel in this letter it must have an introduction to myself – minor writer of Chilean heritage to this country This… Continue reading

  • As Children

    On remembrance and cognizance As children we are not meant to tightrope on sewing thread As children we are meant be busy with dream our bodies bursting with sport and appetite for sweets for the stronger savoury for the game,… Continue reading

  • To an Island offshore an Island

    Swan swathedseagoing seguingto and frayunteathered a skiff rustedskim of spumelost cargoin the deep slow mazingon all seeingocean gardenunwalled ware the weedthe under tumblerumbles with scriedskies joined still vessel waterskatesrowingly unbiceppedintercepted for scarecrowscale the regal bow draw the pinched arrowfumble the… Continue reading

  • Museum Station, Sydney

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  • Sept 16 2013

    A mort un semaine apres l’Amor Full cracked springof a boarding house bed your mother had to have intermediary or we’d be rude elementaries animals figuring which waythe wind swang how to sidestep snakesor wear their shedded overcoats as costume… Continue reading

  • Sept 7 2013

    A mort et un semaine dopo amor I must sustain a face at least if not self for the hooded cold come to take all thankfulness from my lungs the on off of cerebellum naked paralysis learning, read to want… Continue reading

  • The Notation of Birds

    stir under wing flapper do know noise soju drunk sung falu pura purpa parru, aerthrae ha’ae, hurrr, hurrr buzza a feather buzzardisation pick tik tik i tik misik music twixt text teak stick beak the beat turrru turrru twise the… Continue reading

  • Getting discharged from a lucid hospital stay

    If mania is height vertical dizz then the worker bee hexagonal hospitalier filters for fear of drosophila and dropsying like vinegar flies love full on some hermound crest of bird and I as fool hermes descend from mountainship covered in… Continue reading