Esperanza (westward)      embarks on its baptismal litany      (Pitágoras) miniature forest
    an effort well-suited to the meridian      (palm fronds and garden cress) no triangles though
Rebsamen (toy castle) Rapunzel has a doorman       a blackbird stirs up a mishmash of points on
the map     Morena 610       elaborately adorned white (with barbs)     a blacksmith’s witty
wordplays
           “look at Venus (just don’t touch)”

roses for a bone-dry fountain (deep down)        a gluguling up of pigeons        you could say “the
bend betrayed me”       river rocks (resting at the foot of a tree) burial mound      (marimba) pine-
wood door       (stumbling) on the carpet of calloused laurel roots        cactus (an orange rots
away)       thirst (calf aches)         daughters- and mothers-in-law (orange-hued yellows) huddling
close      (and the overgrown ivy)        “eats away at this rock” (its rock-hard imperturbable
conscience)
        (422 Yácatas) impossible address (no matter how hard you look)     “I’m lost”      that’s my
name (between the weeds and grass)      ¿is that my name?        ask the ants       when you put
your head down on the dirt (clods)     

Xola (pigeon cabinet)       the roof (abacus) one white six soot-gray one black (two white) broadly
brushstroked        corner of 232 and Magdalena       dark beards (vines)       (open window) the
curtain fans the snapshot        pale rose (crushed fire)      Tejocotes (cardboard balls) acidic
freckles       (cake and puff pastry) the texture of plaster       Fresas (balls of yarn)        Providencia
“another one’s sold around the corner”       San Francisco (bamboo) white wall (green teardrops)
water in the air        palm tree (infancy)      callejón de Nanche       (spit out the seeds) “or else a
tree will erupt from the children’s bellies”       Cerezas (nor did the three stem from the same
trunk)        soaps fried chicken maybe potatoes (saturday serenity)       (bonsai) hedge         my skein
knots up       ¿what’s the way out?        turn south then east “then parallel”       Diagonal San
Antonio’s the reply       (curve) mold on the sidewalk       palm tree (insists) soot and litter
(different time zones)        “white butterflies”      boats that don’t leak are left out to dry (in
abyssal bottles)        Theseus “you’ve got to get there before he does” (even if by barge)
                parenthesis (vacant lot) caterpillars and tabaquillo       (another city) its boardwalk must
be close

Pyrenees (blue) bells buttonholes for shoelaces     bobbins for a giant’s thread       (dog eyes) tear
ducts burnt out or broken (hopefully not from sadness)       drops leaking from a tree      wound
or busy insects’ mastication       pistachio green (black and red) plays at uncovering the squares
      black (face up) three pistachio two red      (snake-like) hose      Balboa (clattering ceramic
participle)     shattered plates and glasses      for example white and blue (remind me of the
breeze again)          skirts out to dry      big round flowerpot hips

Santa Cruz (contractured defense) incandescent street lamp      (probable suggestion) concrete
splinters on the ground       crane (chain) sink your teeth in        casuarina tree (in heat)        lets
loose       (shrill chillido of an animal torn to pieces)        a hang-dog old man (summertime) ¿ruin
or premeditation of the fall?       (metaphor) the church with its sickly fingers     sheet metal
sunflowers (at the ready)        three egg cartons (not toppling)      ¿Presidentes again?       rolls of
light at the corners of the cables       Bélgica pink pinwheel (or sempiternal flower)
           Theseus (you’ve really got to get there before him)