Ariel Riveros

  • 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

  • Archipelogos

    It was the cliff broken with reason that landed on seapaper forming theoretical islands bunched like coins in a purse in the stitches between reason theoretical lifeforms arose out of the clear rush coming to shore like baby incomparably, legs… Continue reading

  • The Shipyard

    The night harboursblinks with electricityto nerve the port headand lighthouse eyeevery bone is a shipthe skeleton fleetmooring to journey of bodyin the coming morning the night harboursghostreadingsthat steal away to dancehallssailor to shorewalker to dancehall dancertreading boards on the pierthe sun… Continue reading

  • Soap Opera

    Singing I heard from a few showers from the apartment well the showers ran as a small ensemble to the troupe each discrete melody perceivable I heard every drop on the tiles making time signatures like the sound of a… Continue reading

  • The Mission Orphees

    I Jolly Roger –stowaway walks the plank and becomes the hanged man upside down, drowned  in the water The captain knows I have spied the map and that I am a blabber mouth he keeps me holed up in the… Continue reading

  • For Someone in General

    I imagined you walking next to me on a night nearly idyllic but for the absence of you you, colourful lion on a bicycle You, mare on an escalator You, idea on a jinxed plane That you exist is beyond… Continue reading

  • The Information

    A calculator of cans and string Looped on a roll of paper Frozen in ink A surface mechanism Whose depth paperwise is 6 or 16 sheets behind or 22 or 4 or 2 pages ahead She is a piece of… Continue reading

  • Archioptic

    A window and its frame blinks observes states, events and figures It views us its walls and building examine us as jeweler to the gem the flaws run A window and its frame sees us clearly as oxygen is breathed… Continue reading