murmurings] (Edwin Torres

[ murmurings ]

witness the shock of being seen <the dangerous orpheus> the mother asker <the formal confrontation> witness the eagerly looked scattered <the best moment of mirror> the mistake that inserts music <the over the ocean duende> witness the use of dude <the wound bound by boom> the window smarty ridicule reduced by the multi-lingual 3rd wheel <witness the molten vox> the washing machine populi <the recognition battle laced with modesty etcetra> the institutionally

muted

the attacking experimental <the culture of context> the compromise of shifted erasure <the absorbtion knowledge parading as perception’s dueña> witness the unknowing repetition figured by truth the wording careful-larity made of literature’s gratuity <witness the formal sheriff> the experted singular unpronounceable in disconnect of external-larity <witness the getting of

content> the horror defamilia <the co-opted longevity of horizon’s prominent constraint that reeks of a significant willingness to read olympian work> witness the impulse of “i” <the agenda that unpacks the internal combustion> the cosmopolitan question <the illusory utopia> witness the loco localismo barebacked by feeling <by discussion of “me” in privileged

oblivia> the global gorgeous linger . . . if see is what guides what guides see . . . no wanting no poetry no nation <witness the hunger for spirit> the lungspeak ambient <the micro/phonic real> the transformative organic <the dirt speech> the nationless meaning that defines nature <the interruptus

phonemsicals> the spermal sublingual <the mapping social mop-up> the liquid stranger <witness the no-longer knocking> the crooked each-other <the shortened social-larity> moving wordlessly across this page

(previously published in “The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language,” Atelos Books)

- Edwin Torres, “Nuyorican” (New York-Puerto Rican) poet