This Wants to Be

The Imagination

This chewed sweet and sour garlic / this asymmetric leg

of Greta Garbo / this involuntary grotto of silence /

this unpublished premonition of a stiff kiss / this anticyclone

in the topography of a sigh / this genteel lubricant

of bovine orgasms / this kyriopascha obsession

of turning the abstract into the concrete.

The Words

These oblique cartographies / these choral songs

with those far-off glints / these cesti gloves

from the Forum of Augustus / these small moments

of our “visions of paradise.”

The Impossible

This malnourished duffel bag /

this cement stuffed tooth painter/ this resolute

algebraic cat / this invisible postcard

to the invisible man / this rumble

that startles a child’s mouth.

© Sergio A. Ortiz first published in Whispers&Screams Magazine,  24 February, 2010