erythrina


pabanas elective leap
[appellation] (tawa) spider.
grandmother (merges) navel
call. elks swallow windwater,
crop people, wolf and coyote,
ground flap blood turtles

divers trick raven’s
first laugh first lie first heal
first sha sha wawa

sparrow, masauwu hawks,
four line twins opis scrub oak.
fremont, anasazi

a.d. 1500 potsherd, chert flakes

grind
eyries
ladder










cassia


equi neck parafuels
mask the bone reason.
20,000 cold tock walls
toss ice thumbs in
holocene silt

              mastodon
              point
              scrape

mega clovis in wag bog.
croft sublays

              haplogroups











allanthus


hind bin
with eight hands
three fingers

              petro gran

sinagua salado
snazz up yucca

              piton wood

rope cantilever

              unbakes figure










pelophorum


crow (s)
mandan (s)
omaha (s)
winnebagos
sioux (s)
mohawks
iroquosan
cherokees
carawbas
caddoan
yuchis
navajos

              keet seel
              cliff

singleture:

lacuna
hohokam
mogollon
fremont
puebloans










azaderachata


splitcade range
or shotgun catwalk

two humanoid
caprocks. butte cache

is a pock flatnose
bighorn on cliff on tavaput

on pecktow.
jacket map

halfway to shaman










anthocephalus


micaceous lip pots
spruce linter

folsom atlatl. homo
luzonen










jacaranda


art(i)fact pot. corrugated situe trash
pilling figures and telluride,

shelf trapezoids
black paint. pairs breech

except for number 2 kind.
cult sure, fertile

upper sipapu for tewa
and varied gila

shama riverine
incurves tusk. clovis left folsom

enter stratigraphic
levels adap. pursue bison lung

unbroken. playas.
drink down data pop.

holocene tools kill
spi butt

and maze tonto.
rope snares. fiber traps

Irene Koronas is the author of numerous collections of xperimental writing. Her Grammaton Series includes holyrit (BlazeVOX, 2019), Volume IV, declivities (BlazeVOX, 2018), Volume III, ninth iota (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018), Volume II and Codify (Éditions du Cygne, 2017), Volume I. Her collections include Turtle Grass (Muddy River Books, 2014), Emily Dickinson (Propaganda Press, 2010) and Pentakomo Cyprus (Cervená Press, 2009). She is an internationally acclaimed painter and digital artist, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and publisher of X-Peri.
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