...

[[ self portrait without eyebrows ]]
.
to make love with mirrors turned upward--
I’ve twice endured those Tepaneca silences
..............................in

.......................................masks of lace

.............mask of birth

masks of counterfeit poseury
to spite the faces of saints

sometimes... ...elastic torture machines
sometimes... ..........toreador jackets
........oftentimes a refused prune,
the pus of excess vanity, hog flesh


....... [my arms think of you in circles,
.... in cartographies of disaster, or the impaled,
........................................shrinking man]

these schizophrenic eyes dim each time
as voluminous shields of black, my lover’s
.............child-like breasts


........... stings of throaty gestures
from the depths of provoked
..................teeth]