Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez

Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez

Author:J. Michael Martinez [Martinez, J. Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-09-12T00:00:00+00:00


[YES,]

—We Belong Together

an Angello Fabrication

Yes, we’ll erect a temple over the noun-heart & tendril, & yes, concrete fact is impossible, an enigma, for this flesh-making exists between seeing, & yes, we grow light like a pair of birds opening beak to feed from beak, & yes, we crawl forward like a caterpillar caressing the hand’s rind curve, & yes, solemn is the word that lives, obscurity as blessed, in the dust, our earth, our yes to yes all our pierced disregards.

X.

Dear Ritchie,

Growing older has its perks, but the warped records of my spinal collection are less MBV & more Merzbow, but at forty-four, we’ve learned to love how we love our distortions, the pain needles piercing as quiet lightning w/o rain, & yes, Textual-Me knows Movie-You loves this kind of overdrive, as in La Bamba, when you auditioned in the garage, & Los Lobos-You sang out of Movie-You’s mouth, & it was all Saturday night on Tuesday afternoon, like heaven on earth, time collapsing, the sound like silver resonances refracted, chalice chiming as if each were their own glittering surfacing endless self-reflections, nearly cliché funhouse-mirror trope, but there, with you, we weren’t scared, no, as one vibration to another, it was home, a shimmer glide, &, Ritchie, we’ve agreed, no matter how scratched our vinyl, as long as I can hear you, I’ll keep tracing shapes in the popcorn ceiling when it’s too painful to stand

(a porcelain milkmaid; a marble-carved St. Francis withered beside a gaunt lion; porcelain Siamese cats: one smiling, one frowning; glass lamps with irises in amber overlay, bats in deep amethyst; meadows of grapes, wheat & fruits; dogs & stilted unicorns wandering valleys of snow; a peach-blown Cupid sharpening his glass arrow against a rotating grindstone).



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