Animals ripe w/new diseases.
"There is only one disease
and I am its catalyst",
cried doomed pride of the carrier.
Fighting, dancing, gambling,
bars, cinemas thrive
in the avid summer.
Savage destiny
Naked girl, seen from behind,
on a natural road
Friends
explore the labyrinth
— Movie
young woman left on the desert
A city gone mad w/fever
Sisters of the unicorn, dance
Sisters brothers of Pyramid
Dance
Mangled hands
Tales of the Old Days
Discovery of the Sacred Pool
changes
Mute-handed stillness baby cry
The wild dog
The sacred beast
Find her!
He goes to see the girl
of the ghetto.
Dark savage streets.
A hut, lighted by candle.
She is magician
Female prophet
Sorceress
Dressed in the past
All arrayed.
The stars
The moon
She reads the future
in your hand.
The walls are garish red
The stairs
High discordant screaming
She has the tokens.
"You too"
"Don't go"
He flees.
Music renews.
The mating-pit.
"Salvation"
Tempted to leap in circle.
Negroes riot.
A file of young people
going thru a small woods.
They are filming something
in the street, in front of
our house.
Walking to the riot
Spreads to the houses
the lawns
suddenly alive now
w/people
running
I don't dig what they did
to that girl
Mercy pack
Wild song they sing
As they chop her hands
Nailed to a ghost
Tree
I saw a lynching
Met the strange men
of the southern swamp
Cypress was their talk
Fish-call bird-song
Roots signs
out of all knowing
They chanced to be there
Guides, to the white
gods.
An armed camp.
Army army
burning itself in
feasts.
Jackal, we sniff after the survivors of caravans.
We reap bloody crops on war fields.
No meat of any corpse deprives our lean bellies.
Hunger drives us on scented winds.
Stranger, traveler,
peer into our eyes translate
the horrible barking of ancient dogs.
Camel caravans bear
witness guns to Caesar.
Hordes crawl seep inside
the walls. The streets
flow stone. Life goes
on absorbing war. Violence
kills the temple of no sex.
Terrible shouts start
the journey
— if they had migrated sooner
— a high wailing keening
piercing animal lament
from a woman
high atop a Mt. tower
— Thin wire fence
in the mind
dividing the heart
Surreptitiously
They smile
Inviting-Smiling
Choktai
leave!
evil
Leave!No come here
Leave her!
A creature is nursing
its child
soft arms around
the head neck
a mouth to connect
leave this child alone
This one is mine
I'm taking her home
Back to the rain
The assassin's bullet
Marries the King
Dissembling miles of air
To kiss the crown.
The Prince rambles in blood.
Ode to the neck
That was groomed
For rape's gown.
Cancer city
Urban fall
Summer sadness
The highways of the old town
Ghosts in cars
Electric shadows
Ensenada
the dead seal
the dog crucifix
ghosts of the dead car sun.
Stop the car.
Rain. Night.
Feel.
Sea-bird sea-moan
Earthquake murmuring
Fast-burning incense
Clamoring surging
Serpentine road
To the Chinese caves
Home of the winds
The gods of mourning
The city sleeps
the unhappy children
roam w/ animal gangs.
They seem to speak
to their friends
the dogs
who teach them trails.
Who can catch them?
Who can make them come
inside?
The tent girl
at midnight
stole to the well
met her lover there
They talked a while
laughed
then he left
She put an orange pillow
on her breast
In the morning
Chief w/drew his troops
planned a map
The horsemen rose on up
The women fixed the ropes
on tight
The tents are folded now
We march toward the sea.
Catalog of horrors
Descriptions of Natural disaster
Lists of miracles in the divine corridor
Catalog of objects in the room
List of things in the sacred river
The soft parade has now begun
on Sunset.
Cars come thundering down
the canyon.
Now is the time the place.
The cars come rumbling.
"You got a cool machine".
These engine beasts
muttering their soft
talk. A delight
at night
to hear their quiet voices
again
after 2 years.
Now the soft parade
has soon begun.
Cool pools
from a tired land
sink now
in the peace of evening.
Clouds weaken
die.
The sun, an orange skull,
whispers quietly, becomes an
island, is gone.
There they are
watching
us everything
will be dark.
The light changed.
We were aware
knee-deep in the fluttering air
as the ships move on
trains in their wake.