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TLALOQUISTA


Puzzle ,Drenched

drench the atom or nor mes de
culebrina case me truncheon lapped
ah hanh the hips regress – plusvalía
- dented thumb my – halve the
skull rental what’s the tune que
miento nientes ,núbil enfoco la
golondrin a temporal .sunch a
calambering sunch a fladt master
where em idtch revolves ,un por
quería o “a” es, tone flattened
.the puzzle ,drifting

 

 

 

Two Up

a 2 fisted a 2 numbers a 2
thumbing a 2 rift a 2 sides a
2 plate a 2 gun a 2 smothered a
2 crust a 2 hum a 2 mist a
2roster a 2 boiled a 2 lost a
2 crossing a 2 whole a 2 splinters a
2 creeps a 2 lucks a 2 hash a
2 metal a 2 exploding a 2 white a
2 glottal ammunition a 2 thin a 2
clotting in the soup a 2 gushed a 2 it
a 2 hew and dry a 2 muds a

 

 

 

Slow Up

bluster in the cogitated afterspurt the
wallow where your double brays and
flits its lit stinging cómo sabes na
da o natal que es lo mismo que
tu strumming wire on your leg con
traption is it it is a rinse an
cycle lamination of the clangor
watch what “circles” in the
fanganal or lentil soup the
sopa lenta de tu vista vincular

 

 

 

P Sot

the stop height the stop swallowed the
stop singulation the stop hump the
stop ladder the stop flunk the
stop after the stop lung the
stop lunch the stop fuel the
stop growls the stop hunk the
stop button the stop cancer the
stop salami the stop wrassle the
stop cordon the stop wallet the
stop plunging the stop coughing the
stop folder the stop stop the
the stop hammer the stop leak the

 

 

 

Logoteca

composite ,danced ,heaping ,“cha
nged” ,leap across the stinging
knee ,summered ,stunned ,sin ca
misa ,chumping ,ornitología ,alma
,mosca ,túnel ,blooms and thighs ,tum
ba ,mot ,shimmer ,toilet water
,dancetería ,glottis ,fumar ,your hee
l fog ,your nod rinse ,your lumbar
ash ,your ponding in the closet ,you
r itch meter smoking in the sink

 

 

 

Doze

a dozen instants a dozen ashes a do
zen footfalls a dozen angles a do
zen pencils a dozen boilers a do
zen specials a dozen foghorns a do
zen ammunitions a dozen huhs a do
zen lubrications a dozen fills a do
zen submarinos a dozen clocks a do
zen fumbles a dozen a las anchas a do
zen temblores a dozen names a do
zen clouds a dozen pedos a do
zen collapses a dozen pools a do
zen pillowed faces a dozen forms
a dozen pelts a dozen guns a do

 

 

 

Pie de Pollo

meet the slinger foam against yr
puller focus hymn scuds across yr
lids o gunning sleep mute faster
ham than .ditch with pullets
filled the fumes arise and stain
your grainy face .sueño de fau
ces un labio extensivo wiggles
into my ear .where a bird foot
scrabbles in the wax

 

 

 

Es Pejo Es Pellejo

the stent your pencil melts in
side the clanging cage or break
fast box the smoke that never
left la puerta murmuradora en
el lado listo de tu cabezón in
fantil uh mesa inmaterial uh
cóbrame la lapicera incarnada de
mi brazo embarazo .the code re
treats my head inhales your
tongue revolves inside out and’s
sliming down the mirror

 

 

 

Na

chaw an soap an lob an bright an
it’s an doubt an hall an howl an
ice an dit an gull an fungus an
temps an fenêtre an fog an fuel an
slot an sog an dunk an lit an
crash an jiggling in the suit an
fonar an fumar an finger an foot an
chopping an sort an clunk an hock an
caw and craw an cock an quit an
sum an sweat an spill an dust an
flaw an see an send an clot an

 

 

 

Turn Over

dusted off the chigger I was
saving for a boiling day an
F’d it always leaning to the
reft so that’s my ferris
wheel crashing off the dock the
turning water I was flo
ating in a chair the clouds
were spinach muscled in
my loot .I called the
bite my “mist” and gru
mbled at the shiny air
heaving in my armpit

 

 

 

The Mumbling

beet and ,cube infraction in
my sodden sleeve ,issue you
,ants inhaled ,I covered what I
cud through constant chewing
light the glassoline .punch an
ludic dictionary sinking past
the offered frying pans bla
ck with blood .the skull
block rustles the trees are
thick with insects and your
sticky rain all six sides
were named

 

 

 

Pieces

the wetter drink the plume
saddle where I clocked my
lip and phoned the toilet
,sump contamination ,wallets
soaked with motor oil .your
finger cloud grassed and
dangled where your beard
spelt noitalugnis .the puz
zles crunch beneath your
feet

 

 

 

Wet One

oh please no floor and split the
walls an edge is learning an tu
caca floats across the lake .der
retido que brilla con su dialéctica o
posicional .azúcar y pocilgas ,tumba
teniente de semillas .yr fork lights
yr nodding thumb against my eyes
my spooned nodule thumping in your
throat why half the house es aire
.la mitad ,el desaparecido ,la lupa ,el
nogal de niebla donde la puerta
debe estar ,está tu ser aguanal

 

 

 

Saw What

feel the afterschlock why banging at
the single stone clung inside yr sock my
pill grave bright with lint oh storm
your shorts and cuddle what .foster
ham an glisten here ,ache it off ,tie
one up ,cordones cristalinos que mis
tumbas agargantan ,detelefonazo es
.puro lago where my foot forgets ,your
blanker scuds your towel an ant my
dozen sinks )my sinking( about your
steady noise jumps against my eye

 

 

 

 

Los Insectos

dusty buzzing ,below the wall ,half
an orange quivers with ants and gravel
,el lodo seco de mi cara mi cara carona
dormida hes ,hescrito ,hesperado ,hill
with papers scattered ,break a hike
.my lung blisters cluster on your
cheek is that the way ?the pounding the
pounding the pounding a bus sweats
and’s cornered by the temple ,lug
gage burning in the plaza

 

 

 

 

El Año Largo del Baño

the toilet split the doggy lake the
ahspirina condecorada con tu gorra
insípida ,booming the ham an lentilated
soy ,thisping ,mi ojo cuadrado cuar
teado como sueño de sierra ,el
monte tosudo .figuréme he ,nido de
túnel y la tumba flaca )listones acor
dados en las ramas( escúpito tu
,el libro famélico que masticaba
todo el día ,enfermizo ,náusea
léxica y la encuadernación em
papada de mi camisa de hule

 

 

 

 

Hormiga

bruise bruit my nose damper
sand sticky in my shorts ta
fenêtre craque le ciel stopper
me ,lame the corner heaped with
.mumbling in your book ,the drying
face ,my swallows name my
punching rag my .sliding down the
door my slimy thankyou like
an ant

 

 

 

 

Speech Drink

what my sed dust mouth what my
gash lump throat what my neck
nest gristled in the soup change of
game wrist .never ate I what
nor .plenty sotty what an bendy
too .push the grate away and
watch the dusty hall a gagging
bush scrawls along .what my
passing thigh pinkles in the corner

 

 

 

 

Muddy One

posible nunca mente y me
flotas tu lodo todo ,toalla
enfática empática what smoth
ers me .my one lump my one
nunca my one crashing on the
door .cashing off the hips and
was that the naming it ?my neck
rustles in my sleep my brick
siezed the “phone” or was that a
sock .half the numbers fell in
to the drainage ditch a smoky
screen of clouds across the field
the weeds .stumps and rocks

 

 

 

 

Double or Nothing

loops and tunnels grease an
glass sob and blast rinse
and rent teeth and tense
smoke and smile rash and
roll blood and blink thumb
and slam sleep and sinks
use and less rip and
rest gash and guest ham
and heel blow and bomb

 

 

 

 

The

4 necks the 4 cancers the
4 blows and 4 shoes the
4 drinks the 4 pants the
4 snows the 4 cranks the
4 lows the 4 necks the
4 piles the 4 idiots the
4 crawls the 4 votes the
4 smokes the 4 shapes the
4 slots the 4 darknesses the
4 booms the 4 blocks the
4 doors the 4 scratches the
4 the’s the 4 ropes the

 

 

 

 

Road Rot

snap the corner of your laughing-shirt
and .triste eras ,twisty ,tongue-thighed
or whistle glopped ,made the soup
tongue mist you mourned the concrete
floor .ash and lunch ,dogs and
ladders stumbled across the
“room” or was that a pool ?blind
dollars to wipe your .that’s a
boy ,spray it off ,spray it out
:the creeping sandwich labeled with
your doctor visit )or your highway
swishing past the window(

 

 

 

 

Kcen

blood neck heap neck stone
neck lash neck lot neck
sink neck boat neck tool
neck bat neck foot neck
chore neck lamp neck claw
neck itch neck doubt neck
gash neck glove neck stink
neck dog neck enter neck
fool neck rub neck hash
neck dry neck sot neck
meat neck mute neck slash
neck met neck slant neck

 

 

 

 

¿Qué Es Eso?

drench the cheese suit where yr
,pill melts ,lap dust ,crash and
wrench .lotta apetito ,y la cuerda
de tu de mi spondílico se raja
mi camisa a la vista mis nalgas
refunfuñantes .cheap jerk .said it
dry an soggy ,the samich in my
armpit kinda lumpy an hairy but’s
that’s the crystal that’s the
rune that’s the glifo stut
tering la nada tan clara el
vaso lleno an empty fulla speech

 

 

 

 

Queso Ahogado

de manera que qué es eso ¿queso? en
tu bolsillo el mar .fulminesco y mis
latas mis explosiones mis máscaras
sanitarias mis vómitos de oro y la
losa se derrite .cumbre de tus
dedos fondo de lumbre ,derr
úmbame el lado fofo que
fuentes que limítrofe que
lomismo )enganche de mono( la
tropa desaparecida entre los
árboles tu maleta olvidada en
tu ojo la luz última sobre el río

 

 

 

 

Skull Suit

burning suit the lungish sink the
spraddled book the ton of tongues the
inch luggage the tool tower the
sobbing faucet the bush gasoline the
neck flooder the bet toilet the
slathered table the foaming wall the
next toilet the misty sandwich the
cash lumpectomy the broke pool the
sweating nod the drink blubber the
stunned keyboard the laddered fist the
gush component the slag salad the
hushed ruin the clocked skull the

 

 

 

 

Tlaloquista

won my meat while it ,wobbled
an whiled ,torture memo grunting
in the ,dusted drawer the pollo
cacarea inconsolable y mis tun
dentes lentes sink beneath the
scummy skin like frosting on
the lake and kinda sick I
feel tossed that sandwich in the
cenote where I drink an dream
muscle an melt an foam an
fry outside the watered cave


 

 

Copyright 2009 - John Bennett
John Bennett, Ph.D - is the Curator of The Ohio State University Libraries Avant Writing Collection, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library