Ariel Riveros

  • 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

  • Archipelogos III

    We came to the islands the sun rose from the ground hieroglyphics of yearning collectives arms raised to shake equanimity’s wheat for the day’s workreading stonesetched with lifecycle by evening the tree sap enters the finch through night for the… Continue reading

  • Poetic Logic

    There is a logic to sense –  connective synthesis, identifying disjoins and slippery slopes  shifting definition and synechdoches there is a logic to nonsense – and the baroque overcoat,  gaps flailing, intermittent moanings and story breeze blowing the door off… Continue reading

  • Archipelogos II

    and the islands sloughed offthe mainlandin a continuum geocritical break upon breakdivision upon divisionof terrestrial meisosis many in the manyno man is Robinson Crusoe Islandbut I have lived on him quakes that breakgreat lakes and landmassesfed to fish glacier cracktumble… Continue reading