Edward Wells II
Setting The river stopped being a river before She began to be It is a thick lush green. I muse '...walking on...' I'm told that when it rains for three days or more the water flows in the river. There is a rainy season here and three days is said as though it isn't a lot. This year is different though, warmer and perhaps dryer. Life is different here: the thick solid green river; for fifteen cents I can get a stack of tortillias to last the day (fresh, warm); if I get my advance tomorrow I will secure my place (one of two I have selected). I look at the breads, the people, the buildings, the sky and I try to see the culture, the collective, the past, the consciousness. I see more individuals. I see individuals, like I did in The United States, like I did in New Zealand. I can see the shaping that a construct creates. Un vaso de Río. I see the differences that a construct distinguishes. Un Río que establece. We speak in class, breaking structures and words, passing something back and forth. I might say that I understand no one here, or that I understand well for lack of a common language. In no time the River has run its course. The rains will likely return and push it away; down; down south of Federal No. 57 at La Cruz, Lomo de Toro; down to nothing, or perhaps underground and further south, south of Pasa de Mata, again perhaps to nothing. We are accumulating a way of understanding. the rooster corn tortillas and a banana are waiting I roll over and look at the clock cold night air has leaked in through cracked windows the blanket is wrapped around Me as I lay on the mattress that lies on the floor the rooster I close my eyes in the upstairs room that has no ventilation duct corn tortillas and a banana are waiting on my rolling bag I keep telling myself there is nothing to it to rise, to wait the rooster - but it does this at 2:57 PM and 7:00 AM as well as now Edward Wells II lives in Mexico and teaches
English as a Foreign Language. His most recent book hawrs was
published by Calliope Nerve. You can find his page on Facebook.
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