Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

poplars mark my pathway gathering bones

Venus with an afro pick letting go of trends

faster than an afterthought staggering butterfly

cornered  by the clouds full moon

what kind of fool lets you go without a fight— sea-dust coats my skin

jealous of the way you’re happy without me… anthills collapse in the rain, six degrees of separation 

nothing to be afraid of even when the night changes— broken coming and going, I climb the ruins of my life

clouds move in a space beyond grief or understanding... memory, my scandelous mirror alwasy telling a lie

tumbling  through winter she knew she didn't fit... a doll's life trapped in a young man's body

I won't lose you I will follow your body as far as the street where best regards forms a corner with the breeze I will follow your body up to where our two bodies fight to enter your dark tunnel... the deluge of your cloisters

filled with longing I came looking  for ghosts and found  whispers— divergent

strange creatures on moonlit nights ugly sloth faces when I'm alone

you bend like a secret about to be revealed erotic logo

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We met as soul mates on Parris Island there were holes in the Persian rug we sat on that Christmas I could smell the fear and uncertainty of happiness no war crimes would ever be punished our shadows, a candle burning at both ends, kept singing  Goodnight Saigon 

this cold night a silver birch reaches for the sky the life I shared with him ...a scent of lilacs

cold night, a silver birch reaches for the sky— life dissolves into circles when visualizing loss

tiene sangre en las manos y vidrio soplado en los pulmones el corredor del narcotráfico donde mi isla muere tiene sangre en la cara y vidrio molido en sus fosas nasales el corredor de la justicia donde mi isla muere tiene sangre en su pene y vidrio cortado en su colon el corredor de partidos políticos corruptos donde mi isla muere y sangra, sangra, sangra por la cabeza sangra por los pezones sangra por los pies y es capaz de salir absuelto