Ariel Riveros-Pavez

  • Poem: Trapeze as Mode

    Scalding water and my limbs folded clattering round Rib cages caught as a blushing stage magician stuck mid trick. An acumen of fingers looped, released to the nightly preparation for death, who is far more impatient than even me. Philosophers… Continue reading

  • Poetry: Pre-emptive Text – The Future of The Day

    On the street from the future, so to speak.  Morsels like the Siege of Stalingrad.  Depoliticisation is impossible  to get the chance to win the game.  This is a poor European style Japonisme  going to be a good thing.  I… Continue reading

  • Stories of Synchronicity and Found Objects

     A bit after I’d stopped pharmaceutical treatment I started experiencing synchronicities. Or coincidences plus reading into it. What is time without reference though? I was awaiting a return of someone who was holidaying in the tropics. I found RM Ballantyne’s Coral… Continue reading

  • Poem: Hypersex as Event

    Idyl-amaranth, unfaded lion’s tail crops past the sun. Singed fur-trim hat for mercury rising in this style 10/6. Nasa explorer and science has venus as intensity. Classical meme and the demesne too big. I still freeze speech and extremities like… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Agonistic Porosities: consumer, survivor, unrecovered

    “The medical notion of porosity can be seen as pathology. A stable system operates in productive and perceptive flow. Stable porosities, full porosities or otherwise. My porosity is better without public mental health system porosity. And that’s a stat.” After… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery Consumer Science Thread on FB

    Facebook thread viewable through FB comments bubble on Facebook platform. Discussion outlines detailed self care including physical, orthomolecular, arts and cognitive consumer generated science. My Website Continue reading

  • Flash Fiction: 8 Weeks a Day

    Paul worked at a boutique real estate agency. He wanted to get ahead and worked hard at his leasings and sales.  After hours he dedicated himself to practicing his bass. He hadn’t played with a band for close to a… Continue reading

  • Flash Fiction: Rioting and Subsequent Looting

    <!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> I dream about what’s happening to me. I dream my immediacy. I dream that I’m asleep and my muscles rest but my head sweats. It happens on and… Continue reading

  • Flash Fiction: Pavlovi

    Ivan Pavlov and Anna Pavlova were brother and sister. In winter they would go ice skating in the public rink.  In the whitest Mitteleurop frost Anna would double axle gracefully. Ivan was there to catch her and skated at great… Continue reading

  • My chapbook Commoning available signed by poet

    $15 plus postage and handling Message me and pay through my paypal COMMONING released on Vagabond Press. Described by readers as “sophisticated” and “a masterpiece” Here are general reviews of my writing *”…so much of Frank O’Hara in [the] cultivation… Continue reading