DRECK

ANAHI ORTIZ

TWO POEMS

.
we are pitted against each other,
knots and threads,
weaving and weaving,
unresolved,
a scheme to be undone and redone,
ongoing and unfinished

..
i am looking for gentle spirits
all i find is brashness and foolishness
perhaps that's me
i am looking for gentleness
everywhere i go

...
skin dry as a prune
a truck left to caught fire
exhaustive contemplation
without end or beginning
silence ensues, permeates
fumes everywhere


the words slip from under me

                 they tremble

                 as if under flight

        airy

                     or

             porous

all the contradictions exist within

        floating by

at the whims of the currents

        here and there

                shifting, shifting, shifting

a miracle to hold steady for once

            holding its shape

dissolving

        running its course

Anahi Ortiz is a multimedia artist, writer, filmmaker cat whisperer, interested in examining shifting identities, the intersection of time, memory, and imagining new routes breaking through limiting structures.