Memoriam

A stranger born in México, 1930s, desde el sur. A supernova radio train that lets its branches Disperse into the fog of the sierra, and diffract The lakes of light. Watery roots That stay restless and move still, Prayers circling through the wind. Famished is the seed from the cold of existence. Flight into the capitalist eagle’s embrace, who sings A canticle in the skyscraper church of blue, white, and red. Fabela and Chávez’s pains singe Their words in my chained skin: “¡Fuera, oppressive Status of smoke!” I follow the vines, yearning along The monochrome film. Transparent, somber, Are the grapes of the eyes which I’ve longed. Let your thoughts flow to me in amber Cempasúchil. The fragrance frees the swallows From the down staircase of the factories. You burn bras with Beauvoir, hollering Goodbyes to cookie-cutter conformity in the Stonewall Riots. We’re guardians of scholarly music boxes, Sonnets of México City’s blues against makeup and french fries. Valdivian footsteps of our hearts Shattering nuclear cages that silenced spring. Love flows down our lips, departs As sprouting honey-dew at the flash of morning. Hummingbirds chant “Blowin’ in the Wind” to Relieve Nigeria’s wails, and Kansas’ flowers Uproot Paris and Haight-Ashbury in youth. We are driving through the twilight, the sound of The Tangier moon, waves that drown me Into you, beats of ecstatic power. In Woodstock’s night, pausing and sauntering I meditate to our underground rhythm, Letting your thoughts flux in free speech and have a dream against concrete valleys The tiger’s napalm roar resounds; he shears From the Pentagon hurricane bullets in your soul. The gates let all the water in, the mere Violence burns and erases me from Angkor Wat. The soft sand of our body, The breeze from your smile, now ashen Leaves and burnt petals on Tlatelolco. Vanishing woman, transient apple, Smothered by drugs and lightning bombs, Defeated by corpocratic puppets. Resist or assimilate, Both lead to the heaviness of being. Prague’s Autumn, embers of commune pamphlets, yesterday’s sun, Now one name, one illusion, one tangible passion That self-immolates with Oswald’s gun. Slave of the Spanish Hacienda, slave of the Mean Quarantines of Díaz, now slave of the parish Of our technocracy. God cannot see us tendrils Of flame climb walls, accordions blowing anti-pendejismo gallery readings, koanic hookah. I have seen cedars with draft cards fall under the volcano, Now who has come to see me fall? I fight at the sit-ins and Kent State, At the barricades of My Lai, Córdoba, Tenochtitlán, Damascus. My innocence, On the road, is reflections that walk out of Time, stay whispering away. Blood flows slowly, scabs fading and never healing. What is never was/ and never will be Clouds, my/ thoughts are through rye fields./ (blindly crashed.....) June 21, 1969. Folksingers ‘round Harvard Square Howl in paper ships, rescuing flowers from hypnotic advert pills, And search for peace in Mt. Sinai. We are holding Hands through the snow, hoping not to be conscripted and deported Against ourselves with PTSD. Wind-up flying fish Hunt for the escapees of the asylum- "Sybils", disobedient gurus with the key to Paradise. You’re knitting hammocks where to lay Your dead dream children, in latifundia prison schools where There’s little pay, little light in Little Rock. You’re a phantom Of your former self, sewing your walls and straightjackets and mental suicide to society’s therapist. Paint a different story. Strum the heart in graffiti for the opening of the world mind. Clash of celebrity china, ignorant fences, war and slavery. You are not dead, For death is only a labyrinth waiting to be demolished. Eternal is nirvana, never forsaking..... I gaze through the telescope in the rain, Hoping for that rose comet to return. It is forbidden to gaze at the past; It’s Now Spring in Arabia, but winter in discontent. Still, I hope to find the truth in the desert of the past, the grand avenues, to find the right Door that leads to you, in the heat of my hundred years of sacrifice And reach for you in the skies, a stranger born in México, 1930s, desde el sur...