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Adrian Astur Alvarez

These are some things I wanted to tell you.

Category: Poetry

The Word’s Prayer

Comfort of a new page terror of a new page Be my soul Walk to me Make me whole Infect disinfect this room with smoke burning sage Carry me forth with language alien structure Cast to sea Mine my coal Plant a tree Gender engender from seed thoughtless infrastructure Write the soul walk the whole [...]

One hum organic unifying tone hum

This note this half note is not whole Spider descending a single strand of web Haunting the convenience store, the kids want Beer: exploding can freeze mid-air We heard the gunfire report where we camped This was not what I ordered. Send it back My stomach drops. It is anguish but I must speak “Hello.” [...]

Words Poetry Forms

I fill my words with stories Telling each one two by two. Two wartime inventories, Two catalogues of senescence. Reality constipates          you The Other                       outlines me Each one will                   affect Science With phenom                  enology. The true dictionary source: I, the diction, world taker, I, the fount of god, the baker, I, the emergent vital force: [...]