C/ Val.

A long cracked sidewalk: Calle Valencia,
fine bricked connection from city to seniors.
Catalogue of atrophied limpy clothes lines
Sagged perfectly between plant balconies.

Their wet shirts like flags for immigration.
Wet shirts like flags above bull fight
ticket resale box offices, and the burlesques
of spinning meat at döner kebab spots.
A wet political shirt like a flag that reads
"todo sobre ustedes."

When Asked to Define "Fuzzy" by Non-Native English Speakers

adj. texture between hairy and soft
as in rugs or stuffed animals
even sweaters possibly

also sound
the crunchy kind
as in garage rock
and old stereo recordings

in spanish - borroso

noun. perhaps lint or
a collection of air litter
on clothes or furniture

also slang for police
if you like 70s counter
culture.

completely: it could describe
vagueness. useless complexity.
think morals or language.

Blue Lagoon

I fell with the blunt of my wrist first.

Volcanic rock sliced the skin
sending ribbons of blood to water.
The salt colonizing the wound in a flood.

I swam anyway.