Thoughts and Sketches
by Armando Ortiz
1. Anger takes a hold of us all
words of hurt are like waterfall
that hurt you more than the gnaw
that is produced when to them a
truth whose door has been opened ajar.
2. If you are thrown into water infested with jellyfish how will you make it out?
How do you survive an onslaught of stings and make it to the surface, but then how are they removed?
How do you stop the trajectory of a bullet that has been released from the barrel of a shotgun?
3. When you smell a rat, you get out, and fast.
When things are not working out and words
do not match the reality then something must be wrong.
How does attitude affect the outcome in many instances?
How does one create characters that come to life?
4. Waves produce an image that
reminds me of when you slept.
Even sleep can be a pleasure
when peace takes hold of our senses.
5. Rolling hills of endless orange groves
sit idle under the early summer sun.
the citrus scent taps and opens memories
when our youth seemed to last forever.
6. He would make paper airplanes
and from the second floor of the school building
would launch them out and see the planes
slowly sing and glide towards the roof of the cafeteria.
7. Corn shoots emerge from the ground
nourished by the volcanic soil of the land
and tended by dark hands that were dipped
in buckets of light, making them cracked with bones exhausted.
A language sprouted from the earth and conquered by foreign language.
8. Silence in the eyes, and the mind
containing secret memories of things unseen
and told by the outside.
A vessel filled with thoughts and experiences.
The beauty of landscapes misinterpreted and lost in the
soul of a young child replaced with modern words
and linear worlds.
9. Rats devour the spirit
and gnaw on the soul.
Rodents run around hallways
searching for prey.
10. Exponential experiences end up expanding
our elemental minds.
Intention transfers over to the over.
11. The imprint of out mother
appears through the air
a thin veil cover her hair,
revealing her pink lips.
12. truth is released through the final exhale of life.
13. Turtle island is where we live
and with every war the shell gets
brittle.
13. Natural and man-made
artifacts alone are just objects.
We imbued things with the energies
that radiate from within.
the human condition,
hard to contain and impossible to
Decipher.
