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SALIVA
SHUFFLE
FEET
TRANSFERALS
AIRPLANE
DEPARTURE
FAMILY LEXICON
FAMILY PLOT
INVENTORY
COVALENCE
FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS
(THE FIFTH ELEGY)
MOTHER TONGUES
TIME & TEETH
TONGUE TIES
PROCEDURES
JOINT FILING
He was making inventories for something he called his inventory of echoes. And if you’re wondering what inventories of echoes are, this is what they are. Inventories of echoes are things made of sounds, sounds that got lost but were found by someone, or that would get lost unless they were trapped by someone, someone like Pa, who would make an inventory with them. So they were like a collection, or like a museum of sounds that did not exist anymore but that people would still be able to hear thanks to people like Papa who made them into inventories.
ALONE TOGETHER
ITEMIZATION & BOXES
APACHERIA
COSMOLOGY & PRONOUNS
PASSING STRANGERS
FUTURE
SARGASSO SEA
MAPS
ACOUSTEMOLOGY
PRESENTIMENT
JUKEBOXES & COFFINS
Pa-re-ce que va a llover!
It seems like it is going to rain.
CHECKPOINT
ARCHIVE
“La cama de piedra.”
The bed of stone.
“De piedra ha de ser la cama, de piedra la cabecera, la mujer que a mí me quiera, me ha de querer de a de veras, ay ay, ¿Corazón por qué no amas?”
“Por caja quiero un sarape, por cruz mis dobles cananas, y escriban sobre mi tumba, mi último adiós con mil balas, ay ay, ¿Corazón por qué no amas?”
SAMPLES
(THE SIXTH ELEGY)
MAPS & GPS
NO U-TURN
BIRDS
TIME
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
CREDIBLE FEARS
ELECTRICITY
ORDER & CHAOS
HISTORIES
STORIES
BEGINNINGS
NARRATIVE ARC
ALLEGORY
