jute-boy at the naturalization derby * Text by Juan Felipe Herrera * Hyperactivated by Gabriel Hartley

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In the Chevy-sack, mottled & sharp: lean boy, to the ride.

Did you draw out your Hoo-Doo literature, the bone-for-itself?

Remember the riff bone, the one from the goddess-shank?

& the giraffe frame, the self-portrait, longing & philosophical—

was that you, in Low Tucson, hoisting another flame?

Stole it? You did. In your reflex for passion, in your arsonist
lazy fourth eye, the one next to the ear.


jute-boy border goddess
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We note

your animal laboratory: one treasured police dog leg, sprawled

one parakeet vest, two coyote tracks—to cover up your migrant

tardiness into bone-being. How you raced the tyrants, their feathers

& spelled forgiveness, then genocide. But the enemy stands

before you. Can you identify? Let’s leave the question
open.