Lucas de Lima: Four Poems of the "Dreamily Grotesque"

on columbus day

i am half-choked in the pure time of the jaguar bros

either an iguana or an armadillo tail inserted into my rectum so that

my anal muscles can be stripped out thru

repeated rubbing

then, pressing on my stomach, the jaguar bros

force out & cut a section of my sphincter muscle

rubbed down with astringent plants, a thin twig flexed

in my rectum so it opens my anal tract

like a heart pierced with the fangs of a snake & turned over

as the centered purpose of my soul

the tranced waters beyond my reflection of

warped yards

tattered sails

 ***

 each brushstroke of my blood

can grow from a lopped hoofhand

the swelling of my anal lips

against the finger of the brown man whose lips

ripple the pool of my spermatozoid

in which colts throb

anciently awaiting a birth from

2 men

2 men of different races fucking

until the anal lips fill out

ready for the giant equine head

encased in blood and shrinkwrap

leaving cells behind in my body

on the ragged bed

where i give birth to horse after horse

each one thunders down the street

past trash cans aflame

i am left with my brown lover

i hee and haw, his white mare

too much blood loss for me to move

my brown lover drinks it

to flesh out the names of children

we instantly orphan

roses screaming

i cut off my dying hand so rain falls

for cows whose ribs show

each time the sun bursts in my plexus

***

fire-cry mouth of rays i tip my head back to laugh teething offspring gnaw on glass

a hoof rips out of my belly

i am hoarse the priest slits my throat on a plank

village people under me in a pit because of a nail in the ozone pivoting the rope around

my neck

the boom-chika-boom of a hidebound drum funnels the combusted sun down my

throat my vagina wraps my death in gold

at my erection children throw confetti

***

my female leg jutted out of the saddle

my male leg wanted to break

the white mare cried her pus

i asked her to rub her pus on my torso

she bruised me with her snout

the lilacs flecked

the catgut string

played by horsehair bow

my wig blowing in the wind