Tue
Mar
17
Cumbias
Lurched above Avenida Velasco
eucalyptus leaves clack and clatter
.
palsy torrents of tambourines dubbed
lightly against the plum desert night.
.
A peepshow of branches grasp
the burlesque of stars, skin flashes
.
a moonish cream and marble innards
of chlorophyll: aloe vera green,
.
cardboard brown, varicose purple.
Questions carved like lovers names
.
beneath the bark in razor blade—rusty
tetanus rambling strung in clef
.
across the blurred measure of sky.
The tongue of lyric, sorrow of jazz,
.
meticulous movement of matador.
Notes that crumple unpublished.
.
The language of a thousand slit wrist
bleed onto the grass onto the soil.
.
The self-inflicted song of mariachi
forbears the world in favor of music.
