photo credit: Bill Cottman

Bloodstream

There were no sardines

Until captured fish were labeled that

Entrapment / dismemberment

Gets embedded in knowledge

ImproviXation is necessary

Because rote of daily living

Is institutional

Acting as samurai



Often affords escape from

Captivity and sardine cans

Courage is culture

Memory of struggle lives in blood

Duende penetrates muddy mendacity

Enters tree roots and rises

Lives are on the line so we make our

Intentions known

No one has rehearsed what’s happening

This enigmatic spirit is manifested

Not manufactured

It’s in blood

In rituals

Appropriated by one culture from another

In miscegenetic ways