hūzíwí
hūzíwí waking,
spiky ivory scarlet legs emerging under silky deep burrow
ancient nightmare web
hūzíwí arms rumbling,
lava blood summoning as veins bulge dripping molten dread
while finger bark rots fish bone and plastic hen
hūzíwí chest broadening,
tree trunk torso bloated moaning, kaposi blemish croaking leaky
bile corrosive oily leads
hūzíwí head sprouting,
mushroom cloud flowering, broken jaw distended hanging
exposed tendons, drooling and spooling humun thread.
hūzíwí life entering,
lumbering thundering trunk stumbling, grumbling battle snakes
tumbling towards hickory ivory maple bed
hūzíwí dancing,
ransacking mansion rancid, opening spider wings made of
wrapped skulls and earthen nest
hūzíwí wilding,
festering wobbling pneumonic coughing, posturing chin towards
ceiling entropic depth, angling its neck
hūzíwí now jumping,
furious whale mother shark teeth thumping, flailing and plunging,
ripping up sorry chest
hūzíwí retreating,
weeping feet beating, clear I am dreaming, steps through the
window to the asphalt road toward friends
II.
hūzíwí returning,
clear hour-glass earth body hairs swarming, burning and gorging
on lucid dread
hūzíwí weaving,
insect animal hands turning, patient silk thread churning the oval
tomb for my shriveled flesh
hūzíwí long heaving,
grand elder fingers summoning as the world comes buckling
hūzíwí mumbling,
new life – the egg
Nelson Alburquenque is a student at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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