IVAN ARGUELLES lives in Berkeley, California. His books include Daya Karo! (Luna Bisonte Prods), City of Angels (Potes & Poets) and 'That' Goddess (Pantograph Press). 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gothic) the "gods" stunned in olympian boudoir brow grazed the marble fell un conscious incognito draped in byzantine prophyry minerva hiding orgasmic -xults buttocks jacked hardening into the concrete mirage a is a sailor? caesar's civic war memorials a park lined with umber her repetitions are easy to purchase just wire Mom home gone \\ funerales \\ rg veda in "con text" cartilage smashed the a fist in the canvas wearing a headlock tripled and could "take" it lipstick half an inch thick to hide the " c o r o l l a s " d e e p pattern ed cellular division is life beginning a gain a threat received by wire and monogrammed to the letter a singular event beyond des cription angelic coves shoved where the remains in a tight small broke the mast in a squall and radioed to no "effect" bruised easier than thought before a the size of paper and when folded into quadrants enough of the sky so seep through leaving a faint lavender trace s then a different parts of the body took anatomically a hell of a as watched from side to flying hair and spit to side sweat in sheets layered over the what was it? inert the lump of "meat" but when at the right spot stiffened quivering displayed some oil over the area but exists blank as a con junction hesperides oval in between the slats a seen as if for the first a jettisoned his "come" against the already dirty glass a specks the goddess opened her s as well and spitting a fray cloth undone above wheeling in the patch of text birds a teal a kestrel was weary and the book indifferent to its contents lay there asking her is a difficult "thing" a reddens the white stuff around her eyes enormous un contained -able fzzz sh "what do you call this stuff?" she's not worth the spit a whole orient tilting pockets of a undefinable ash or a down of sorts a pellucid matter she a was her the swelling here and there where the were hardest and summed up the biblical in an episode modern for its greek the thought content however the thin a vaporized soon to be released in cune iform "blows" to admit to even in fantasy we are about to anyway die doesn't matter the music as an emblem a haunting incessant obsessive "background" rhythm noise white or blank below the hyphen and a sequence of gyrating I'm a thoughts gone asleep blanched a edges fray tassels squirting un controll lay the head down on the stone to gather sleep from a cor ner BLESSED BE so if it is come to be "this" so be (flame's integer home ing stinct is warm er near wher e only ashe(s) s(warm) linger petals a drop a has and chapters of blank sand a hovering delight re mains just that to be and no more in iso lation is just there finishing prose of text in air and sweeten s despond the tactic aureoles blush hazy lemish to main tain the alter nate the ego 's other "yo soy otro" darker hoof is hell 's way sun setting sighted in cloth gold array of glitter as star s in volume s of in effable the water at the very begin ning of time has no outer to utter the swaying in wind s storming walls yellow dialect in fission her (mouth) pried as no indication s (south is to the dead) and for wavering her column s in decibels too ornate topped by a choir sweating the seams as burst light in sheaves scattering over hold of ancient "space" (it's in the bible) touched a section of meat whiten a paint her wild as roses orient a desert flayed for heat prim as dew swift ened decay of parts of sky scales chips as adze or flint s tone tucking the inn- spots link to choral prelude and planets sighted for envy wheeling we are come to "nought" the used car the sale port folio in vagabondage clinks a song re sumes its why other singled out of a partitura minor are keys a door wins thought of the umbratile the uncolored the lacking space the the un a that too solo tombs frieze in void of lacust rine cities mirage a whisper too be comes and loud as ef fects on the pane rivers smash easier than glass over wails un able to wake the street broadens its trench for deal in argot for sub cortical a rem nant poetical spies linger in dormer with whiteness of de cay (fewer than five ? sions of a boulevard shanks ling biceps doubled over to see the valley florescent the magnificent yews and shading off into where soundless the tread of the dead in their pygmy a lluvial pattern suburb s oleum) spatt ers ink the while in outer patois the sound for "aitch" is sub merged with the amatory epistle rounds of ammu nition ab solutely noiseless ex plos ing shifts in the primi tive linen around wrapped the which is a body in bloom each word is a matter not to be spent light ly ether re fracts and color gain s sight of other ness though blind and apostolic