

HeritageA grandfather recalls his own father staring out mutely on the twilight sea, a commanding gaze, determined, yet still kind. On the unfamiliar shore, he was met with a cry of "Immigrant!"Heritage
Yet on he went, and at each hateful shout, he said only "Peace be with you."
He is not mine, he is ours.
A mother, almost foreign to her own land now, takes her repose in the cradle of earth, stands to listen; To each daughter, she whispers "Oye, m'ija" as a rhythm, a certain martial cadence, rises to greet her from the ancien


The CityI tread upon your slow, breathing sidewalks, searching for my way among the multitude; I cannot see you, but I know your face.The City
The clarion calls of car horns draw me close. A beat pulses up from beneath your surface; my feet get caught in your intoxicating rhythm.
So tempting it seems to remain concealed; hiding in this ocean of anonymity, continually enmeshed in the silence of steel and concrete.
Faintly in the sky, the tracery of machines; a network of pipes connects to your core; within, a lotus brimming with nectar drips down liquid metal vitality


An ObeliskWatch it rise up, awash in symbols toe to tip; stretching growth like desert flowers towards sun. Observe a piercing apex awaken as you approach, caressing horizon and zenith each in turn, and then disintegrate with the passing years, abandon each fair marking of the strange forgotten script, lose all memory --An Obelisk
yet return ever, bearing water from the crackling stream to the thirsting eyes and sandy tongues; thus, thou shalt renew thyself.


conditio sine qua nonall the night long she was running seeking harmony o rhythmic entrancer, wherefore dost thou not come out reve(a)[l]ling [in] thyself?conditio sine qua non
True.ly, it seemed so simple yet -
oh! can you hear it?
above ascending by precise ratios each time recalling w a ve r ing gen t l e no tes hov e r ing o n t o p o f t h e repeat. peat. peating. sync. sync. syncopated melodic phrases over Dis-crete-un-end-ing--pul--ses-in---ter-wov--en-with-
aHhh. i see now that ex machinae, she has at last Arrived.