in memoriam

Wrist of your wrist
Wrist of the blazing rain
Wrist of Neruda whom I saw in Paris in 1957
Wrist of the books boiled in snow
Wrist of the savage fence surrounding Madrid
Wrist of the raft and the stream and the elevated train in Chicago
Wrist of the whispered cue, the dark stage and naked actors
Wrist of the flake's unprintable agony
Wrist of the pretty ass, magnificent form, horse mane, lemonade stand
newspaper rack, long dark cafe
Wrist of tantra monta Tezcatlipoca
Wrist of the rain's pins
Wrist of the day's deep buckets
Wrist of cream and hump
Wrist of llamear
Wrist of tu pant, alone
Clank, clank
Clank, clank
Wrist of the gris-gris, crayon, republic, orange,

hogshead,

chopping block
sailor's burn
Wrist of the postal meter
Wrist of the virgin's neck, white thigh
Wrist of the fono frenetico
Wrist of the logo or real lago
Wrist of the leonino, tus listas
Wrist of the chain glazed, pintle chain,

knockabout chain, broken chain
Wrist of the cigarette
Wrist of the lamb's slit throat
Wrist of the loud sternum, hollow eye, human novel
Wrist of the big knockers
Wrist of the river and the stupid floaters
Wrist of earth, air, fire, water

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The above appeared originally in the chapbook Elote King II by Leon Pinon (Luna Bisonte, 2003).