Losing Argentina
when
I disappeared
malbec
swamped my throat
like
Andean snow melt surging the acequia
how
I chose passionfruit ice cream
wishing
it were opuntia
how
I pretended I never wanted a screen porch
&
a cat door she’d lever bats through
moth
wings in shower drains
cactus
spines trepanning my hat brim
triple-thorn
scar bursts
tattooing
escape routes onto my arms
hue
& cry of zorros every night
when
i disappeared
an
out-of-mind fissure wolfed
my
household down to the
nutcracker
i
fled with Chinese zapatos & a shooting blind
the
burrowing owls agreed with me
parrot
flocks burned blue
I
felt like a wasp hive in
the
air conditioner after a swarm
I
ate no more grass-fed bife
my
wallet was plumbed for identification
I
couldn’t bicycle
when
I disappeared
the
desert morphed into pan casero
went crumbling off to where llamas stampeded
went crumbling off to where llamas stampeded
acequia, irrigation ditch
opuntia, prickly pear cactus
zorros, foxes
zapatos, shoes
bife, beef
pan casero, homemade bread
this is gorgeous.
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