Quilted Stilness

Quilted Stillness

a blanket without a face

looking into fog without depth

rolling stillness beyond

the quilt never covering

a view masked




under seen

but never peering

that other side

where is the bottom

to a view masked




a blanket without a face

one sided stillness

beyond the depth

no view from above

for a view masked




between the cover

quiet perception

depth’s stillness

a view masks

a blanket without a face




A. MENDOZA, 2017 

Quilted Stilness

Quilted Stillness

a blanket without a face

looking into fog without depth

rolling stillness beyond

the quilt never covering

a view masked




under seen

but never peering

that other side

where is the bottom

to a view masked




a blanket without a face

one sided stillness

beyond the depth

no view from above

for a view masked




between the cover

quiet perception

depth’s stillness

a view masks

a blanket without a face




A. MENDOZA, 2017 

A SCREAMING LIGHT DARKLY

A SCREAMING LIGHT DARKLY

learning reality

from reality TV

a magic of light

an exposed dark

competing against

what isn't worth

competing for

on display

the beauty of ugly

a temple of light

rising for the arousal

sinking the soul

surrounding a darkness

from the comfort of a chair

next to drinks sweet

and filled snacks

of the bitter truths

stone cathedral

carved temples

where awe was inspired

now a derision

crushed by a light darkly

their silence drowned out

monuments only speak

to ears that can hear

the screaming lights never listen

screaming light

becomes dark silence

never to become witness

cathedrals and temples

silently whisper

monuments can only hear

away from the screaming light

that illuminate an arousal darkly

not listening to the sinking soul

A. MENDOZA, 2017

A SCREAMING LIGHT DARKLY

A SCREAMING LIGHT DARKLY

learning reality

from reality TV

a magic of light

an exposed dark

competing against

what isn't worth

competing for

on display

the beauty of ugly

a temple of light

rising for the arousal

sinking the soul

surrounding a darkness

from the comfort of a chair

next to drinks sweet

and filled snacks

of the bitter truths

stone cathedral

carved temples

where awe was inspired

now a derision

crushed by a light darkly

their silence drowned out

monuments only speak

to ears that can hear

the screaming lights never listen

screaming light

becomes dark silence

never to become witness

cathedrals and temples

silently whisper

monuments can only hear

away from the screaming light

that illuminate an arousal darkly

not listening to the sinking soul

A. MENDOZA, 2017

Dripping Science Sexuality

Dripping Science Sexuality

an object of one that is not one
a taken for granted enigma
a coin of the realm
minted as an objective

a subject of desire
a problematical question
that minted objective
that subject

findings of the unknown obvious
an emotion plucked from the mind
a mind plucked from within
a problem of how to question

a scientific body
also a subject of desire
that coin with two faces
that is never the same

while balancing on edge

in an anticipation
the un-faced minted object
a dripping science of desire



A. MENDOZA, 2017

 

 

Dripping Science Sexuality

Dripping Science Sexuality

an object of one that is not one
a taken for granted enigma
a coin of the realm
minted as an objective

a subject of desire
a problematical question
that minted objective
that subject

findings of the unknown obvious
an emotion plucked from the mind
a mind plucked from within
a problem of how to question

a scientific body
also a subject of desire
that coin with two faces
that is never the same

while balancing on edge

in an anticipation
the un-faced minted object
a dripping science of desire



A. MENDOZA, 2017

 

 

TEN POUNDS

 

TEN POUNDS

How can we see god

when we cannot even see ourselves

maybe with a mirror

a view from reflection

too often without one

or maybe a selfies’ distortion

after all the camera does add ten pounds

maybe that isn’t a real image

since it’s so malleable

than any truth

very subject to and of

our own abuse

with an added ten pounds

un-mirrored distortions

the image reflections

more malleable than real

we cannot even see ourselves

unless maybe in a pond

with those added ten pounds

or those pools that we can stand over

from a commanding view

a view from refection

only as large as we are

our ripples of light

unlike a camera view

it’s self powered

with a physical depth

a watery reflection that hides

where we are not

that reflection is were we are

a truth un-malleable

shining a light on a camera

hides the refections

needing no distortions

un-mirrored by it’s own pool

out of it’s depth

without distortion as an image

cannot even see ourselves

without the extra ten pounds

A. MENDOZA, 2017

TEN POUNDS

 

TEN POUNDS

How can we see god

when we cannot even see ourselves

maybe with a mirror

a view from reflection

too often without one

or maybe a selfies’ distortion

after all the camera does add ten pounds

maybe that isn’t a real image

since it’s so malleable

than any truth

very subject to and of

our own abuse

with an added ten pounds

un-mirrored distortions

the image reflections

more malleable than real

we cannot even see ourselves

unless maybe in a pond

with those added ten pounds

or those pools that we can stand over

from a commanding view

a view from refection

only as large as we are

our ripples of light

unlike a camera view

it’s self powered

with a physical depth

a watery reflection that hides

where we are not

that reflection is were we are

a truth un-malleable

shining a light on a camera

hides the refections

needing no distortions

un-mirrored by it’s own pool

out of it’s depth

without distortion as an image

cannot even see ourselves

without the extra ten pounds

A. MENDOZA, 2017

WORD PORN

WORD PORN

not so rare

averring silence

was the fortune

in how to be quiet

about truth

belaboring an obvious point

and a secession

a breaking away

without withdrawal pain

like a birth gone wrong

the wrong doping protection

a fortune favor

a house of cards

playing to the rule

is cheating at every singularity 

while wandering

without double exposed

as a Golyadkin humiliation

becoming an ignoble Aaron serpent

an Abdera with no Bristal waters to wash away

no one to hear the call

of the unconverted

throwing up cards

like a dog with fleas in his ear

having listened

there is no golden ointment

Latona extracting her revenge

against a thieves latin

finding no escape in a month of five Sundays

truth lost 

sin die

a sinecure glorifying a new silver age

trafficking in sacred things

becoming an earth monster

a Judas kiss condemned by it's own ambition

vernal verbal moon-drops

a paphian who splits hairs

a Janus when even speaking truth

in pari passu by lesbian rule

a libel opening towards a lich-gate

and through the catch

where the lictor awaits

is seduction into the arms of Posperpina

to that new Neaera

of our own word porn

A. MENDOZA, 2016

WORD PORN

WORD PORN

not so rare

averring silence

was the fortune

in how to be quiet

about truth

belaboring an obvious point

and a secession

a breaking away

without withdrawal pain

like a birth gone wrong

the wrong doping protection

a fortune favor

a house of cards

playing to the rule

is cheating at every singularity 

while wandering

without double exposed

as a Golyadkin humiliation

becoming an ignoble Aaron serpent

an Abdera with no Bristal waters to wash away

no one to hear the call

of the unconverted

throwing up cards

like a dog with fleas in his ear

having listened

there is no golden ointment

Latona extracting her revenge

against a thieves latin

finding no escape in a month of five Sundays

truth lost 

sin die

a sinecure glorifying a new silver age

trafficking in sacred things

becoming an earth monster

a Judas kiss condemned by it's own ambition

vernal verbal moon-drops

a paphian who splits hairs

a Janus when even speaking truth

in pari passu by lesbian rule

a libel opening towards a lich-gate

and through the catch

where the lictor awaits

is seduction into the arms of Posperpina

to that new Neaera

of our own word porn

A. MENDOZA, 2016