Ivan Arguelles

Ivan can be reached at iarguell@library.berkeley.edu, was associated with the little magazine Jejune, and is a frequent contributor to RealPoetik.

CARNICERIA ILUSION

what is mute and orders

flutters dark concupiscence

driving dank down through

streets of mind's illusion

s a poem artifacts of meat

bliss attires legend s home

wheel of desire & sacrifice

bled on the window's pain

-fuscated disorder in eye'

s what obsesses and blow

s large the member to pro

portions ecstatic blindly

-ssing and splits infinitive

to what sing this life a ride?

labyrinthine transduction

of flesh portfolio in glass

obscene through whisper

a lattice framed blue

night scape somber death

rolls a drum s tattoo for

a mile before "ending" as

-lusion of carne vale spit

liquid cycles burning fast

"than a ray of light"? her

s an adumbrated echo of a

piece of meat is all she ever

was redacted for video audience

size duced to micro shelf

her lips caught on fire kiss

me 's a mere faint of a trace

all cancelled by gods in lofty

perfumed cameo once caught

never re-visited legomenon

illustrates mode of thinking

with mind on "cunt" vortex

syllable by syllable until

dropped dead from sheer

orgasmic funambulation

finger strapped to grotto and

delta in necklace of vice

diamonds as are a ragazza

provokes ire by mere Absence

mezzo tinto polyglott -ology

like a semi propa device

undefoot her greenish print

divise dysfunctions of Mind

in corroboration with the butcher

or a line gets too long to think

proportions out of hand

diced and peppered simmer

s to a replete boil whiten

s margin intoxicate and eat

before frying illustrations

to follow in dionysian dis

order books to vile green

hem stitched undone water

seeps into dream absolute

nihilation an interesting

doubling of a darker moment

um latin gesta troubled male

fixated on routine trans

figuration and meta to heaven

but not back lighting gone

as swallows divinity and

darker still the end result

behind stained monument

of tragic duplicity could have

meant perilous to the "lover"

s heart and drained by evening

what pale remains is little

of the imagination left a

inch of "meat" incarnadine

what should have been

the severed her at the thigh

right below the jerusalem

angles to a quoit subversion

implicit dialectology when it

comes to repeating what she

"thinks" or the matter it self

and of the obscure passage(s)

hermeneutics is of no usage

neo glyphic montage a bare

recidivism of the alphabet

as then "known" other than

a few notchings on oracle bone

the representative mask of

beauty torn from its persona

bleeding on to the pavement

a dichotomy possessed of

speech although most meat

has ceased to ratiocinate

maps later in a well lunar

frieze whiter than is that?

functional radiation from

a putative "center" barking

maddened at the distancing orb

on all fours her white limbs

crimson streaked by anger

dust bowls a pitch to her

throat diphthongs blackened

morsel of "stuff" like tongue

and choking disgorges myth

or a "movie review" of some

intrinsic section flesh colored

aspect of mind sets off

flashes and sky inside out

! yellow severs ward and

flow avenues of time

abruptly no-ended reach

into abysmal figures shadow

play behind ideolect of

gesso argot Angst

meat cunt slash orgone

dividend(s)

they are hunkering eating

toltec pyramid dialectic

carniceria ilusion

y nada mas!

(from NIBBANA)

Ivan Arguelles