Ariel Riveros

  • Japanese Vegetarian Spring Rolls

    1/2 cup carrots, julienned1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, julienned4 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked and chopped (discard stems)1/2 package of nira (Japanese garlic chives), cut into 1 inch pieces3 eggs, mixed well1 cup bean sprouts100g vermicellispring roll sheets (medium-sized ones work… Continue reading

  • Chile 911 1973

    There are no grounds for a child exile to adapt to a foreign climate and recall new songs of an old time I have the Spanish of an infant hippy, and arrived outside from where the shore and even the… Continue reading

  • On Shakespeare

    The pen is a weapon and  the best writing hits all meridians,  animal migrations, plant anemophily and subterranean root connections, species human’s senses and faculties, the totality of codings metaphysical and pre-codings systemic and subversive.The embodiment of all that and… Continue reading

  • horsepower porn

    when in april begins the showers so sweet that the long island ice tea reaches the roots of the wheat the first cuckoo in central park starts yawning five seconds after dark you too, you too the owls and the… Continue reading

  • untitled

    I kissed the butterfly nebulae in a studio of airconditionersit had no name and uncatchable by net. it knew the drift of the aircurrents would somehow slowly slaughter it, by waltz or trace. Continue reading

  • Tanka

    The rain falls manysoft crash butterflies roadwisesmall hero shimmerthe rain falls paspallumwardgeofluvial dragon. Continue reading

  • Celador

    JRR Tolkien’s wife’s favourite son the good writer called The Second. ‘You know, the Second? My favourite words in the English language are ‘cellar door’ not because of its meaning but because of its sound…’ and the young JRR Tolkien… Continue reading

  • Early 21st Century Must-Haves

    From: I/Thou ext. close up. Because I love you and lifeas it so appearswe all shall join hands and wish so ferventlya cure to all ills of our own poverties, of time, money or madness Because I love you and… Continue reading

  • Facism

    There was a face visible in the landscape painting that meant really it’s-all-tripping Which is Ancient Greek translated into Modern English for“everything is beautiful in its own way”your frowning sounding board face the face that left an imprint on the… Continue reading

  • Making a bird wing with hammers

    requires for the one with few tools to be incredibly swift and deft; and static tears in howling storms for all the sparrows that have died. Continue reading