Diana Lizette Rodriguez & Anne Waldman
DIVINATORY b(ONES)
or are we our namesake grace & huntress? Anne/Diana I went to throw the end of my lot
And saw you, poet Are we blessed?
Will we work?
Rimes\ in oryex of motion
& spoke of this meeting spoke of throne of kingship as danger said something like “hot moon works harder as subprime” as super moon? now a slice of her moon-bodice said: “we should bring out the beads, now, 108 of them” will be coveted by the nun’s breast & sweat the sweet barbarian from yr old country
likes to dash the praying stuff down for French guise out of China
or Calvinist, like a wheel what robes do you wear?
the broken world’s sound of “nahuatl’’and “habit”
I would like to stray in red tonight
would shimmer down to greater first religions that walked in with fire & birdsong
I’ll be the first one on my knees... Music of the saints of natural order
Spirit realms, gems & stones
Catch the tallow of candles
And placate the wicks
Will you bear this metaphor on your face as
mouth blows them out?
Will you be the spiritual guide
Strunk dumb by the pores open to ritual ------ Tremendous! (a little girl). Is a splash
What can be beholden... Kristeva’a anaphoric index we’ll try up all night again to meet its abstraction
Somnambulistic kinesis of all alphabets arrive to
tick down her spine
In trends of sympathy a-Zed the way we would no more suffer for our Book of Hours but count the sheaves of wheat
This nonsense my larkin, my nerve, my trachea
the irreligion of writing the way we will always do more
gesticulating and plucking of phrases between notes of prayer
It works as liturgy for a dreambook of redemption
that misunderstood extension daubs the renunciant with the mark
as darkness hits duress the
recluse demands
that scholars never turn down their meditation
The First Rosary
is the image inside breast belly
water warm red collection
in the first city where I followed his black eyes and my innocence that I lost a while ago.
What time, where, and when? I do not remember
but this morning she no longer sits
with me
In The Second Rosary
a sacred memory
la santa semana pasada
oh god are you still alive?
exhausted sentimental
the beans in the tub for lunch
A kiss in the cheek A strange hug
Maria was born the day after Ora Fortuna
a heavy world still carried
and you there smiling at what we share a list of the things we have lost
What will it be like in the next fifteen years?
In The Fourth Rosary
in pink
easy shadow erase everything has a return a moment
today on glory saturday
I talk with Norma about the past memory
the voice of chavela vargas on the radio
memory
the photo of me as a six-year-old girl cake in hand
memory
a love against mud
a cloud that leaves rain
and the smell of little earths
memory
October, September quiet
my ancestors end here
Seventh Rosary
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