what dna

is left

open

pollinated

potential

what

ear

of corn

able
standing

to seed

itself

i love

you

but

i love

myself

more

not a

whore

not a woman

not a bit

piece

but a

modern

peace

a family

feud

a hue

taken

shaken

i am whole

holy

i hold

dreams

in loosely

clenched
fists

choke

the misery

out of a

hybrid

nation

knowing

you elation

after

bitter

bruised

starvation

take back

your

names

your

words

your

power
take back
the longest night
the shortest day

comic character

give away

your

grave

gypsy
circus
ladies
mint
condition
clowns
just
cum
all
over
just
join
me
in this
joint
i’ll point
out
the scenery
but you
must bring
your own
blunts
your own
fish gadgets

imagery

the greatest

show on earth

worth more

than birth

a show of

hand pizzaz

jazz a show

of snow flow

song spirit
a show of wild
home grown
endorphine

where the

curtain

caresses

corrupts

ignites

all i’ve spoken

before

all i’ve spun
done paid

those i’ve

laid with

and missed

aqui

ahora

te quiero
no say
don’t know
what

i want

between

my legs

not sure

where

i’m going

this place

i face

fractured

manufactured

a trench a stench

a formiddable

uncharted

tributary

and then my bones break
you know
pain gain
feign fetch catch
love lust
this gust
of guts
teeters
doubts
i’m full

inflated

los siento

my bites

abrasions

can’t endure

being prey

i choose
you
and him
her
i choose
a pill
of hormones
over
motherhood
i choose
the dusk
over sunrise
i choose
to turn things on
that i may not use
i choose
where i spend
my time
money
myth
i choose
man
woman
serpent
silent
lament
i choose
my muse
delegate
fellow
fools
i choose
to love
live
engrave
save
pave
new
fate

on my back
one handful
of mornings
i’ve wanted
to stop time
bliss dis queer
revenge i would
have loved you
as a lover
but unrequited
is the story
of my life

kiss

broken

skin

first

love

lost

dissolved

first

fire

crush

drunken

punk

first

wedding

empire

funeral

desire

first

loss

new

night

fight

first

blood

lesson

star

light

first

feast

sneeze

enlightened

emergency

pop

weasel

in the hen

house

my spouse

my mate

culture
it’s not

fate

it’s fucked

you are

clever

not

kind

you don’t

know my

mind

you don’t

read

you ski

from hither

to hell

that spell

i place

gardenia

nasturtium

purple potato
heirloom
amidst
hybrid
heretic
among
hoodlum
bitten
bruised
i swoon
produce a
pittance
of you

snake bite
bitter poison
take it
turn
medicinal
fertilized
this frenzy
i thought
i said
goodbye
i thought
i could
listen
glean

nina

mi ojos

verde

sometimes

blue

azul

i witness

my death

i feed

on the yin

of post

partum

lament

women

bleed

women

heed

the man

in town

super

comic

curdled
an oasis

a rapture

in enferno

bedded

nesting

in your

lion’s

den

in the mountains
i bled
high on
the sky
the miserable
moods
of nature
the mess
i caressed
death
and now
my birth
untouchable
volcanic
what muse
can handle
these hips
lips my
moment
comes
in the grass
and barbed
wire at night

ripped jeans

tripped soul

burrowing

in love

i never want

to see

this place

by daylight

my friend

we met

while our

bones

were still

growing

i miss you

in this silent

fight