Areli+Fuentes

Parcel Stoneby Areli Fuentes

Tensing, the parcel of stone My once noble heart revolves Among the abstinence of selection

The heart is sensual yet freckled With wishfully doubtful

Confessions shrouded All gardens must be picked Deny or allowed Everything eventually wilts Parcel of stone The engine beats That silent crying in moonlight Striking the calm The heart <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Revolves <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Beats <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Wilts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Cracked like a flea.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Love without Sound <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">By Areli Fuentes

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Existence unsuited <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Azure smoke between silver trunks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Undisturbed security <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Discovered by lonely faraway glance

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Obliterated ornament! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">So much broken and disguised <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">(But stands comfortably between)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Sublimities size <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">How they assimilate never old <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Single rose tree

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">All telling the same tale <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A love without sound

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Nights

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">By Areli Fuentes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Dynamono in the machinery of night

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Isn’t touching the ground

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">I, too, dislike it there are things that are important

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When company comes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">To be lost that their loss is no disaster

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">And grow strong

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Keeps on picking olives

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Never be blind or too old

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">And the deep river ran on

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The beauty of inflections

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Petals on a wet, black bough

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Do not go gentle into that good night

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">As sweet as I could bear

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Took its place among the elements

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Confessions

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Fish Lens <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">By Areli Fuentes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The Man in the Box

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">No pictures, no face, and no memory. Nothing. Nothing, not even the feeling of abandonment. I mean how can you feel everything? How? Being brought to this world is work of two he didn’t understand what that fully meant? Rejected my existence; the love she had for his roguish ways didn’t mean anything to him. Not at all. A phantom whose name I carry like cross placed upon my fragile shoulders.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The first rejection is always the deepest cut that open sore that boils and festers until it finally leaves you like a mere shadow of yourself. Toxic and permanent for years to come if not properly treated. The words I hear at night of fallen angels calling the final redemption ring in my childhood dreams, that God would find that man for me and strike down judgment.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">To ask him why he left is the only thing I dreamt of in those innocent days, no matter if my mother forbade me to ever search him. A selfish reason but a reason no less.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Embrace me man in the box. Open my eyes to the world outside of my own, where I will greet your presence in every man I see; where I will see the father I never had.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">One Still Exists

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Years pass like the ever changing seasons yet the feeling lingered a lost scent within my mind. The open sore grows more putrid, rotting with the want of discovering the outside world. A loss of air fighting to break free.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Now he exists. He has taken a new form with amber eyes like those of a stray cat; glassy and all-seeing. He has arisen from the reincarnation of a horrible story written years before the wheel of nirvana turning. The tuff of awfully dyed black hair ruining any charm in that baby face. //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Hey, Brock where have you been? // Eating me alive with those cruel eyes the same orbs I imagine my father would have. A childish fear only I could possibly feel.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I wish he’d stop.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">God, I wish he would stop.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">But he never does.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">We both sit cancerous on that bleak concrete as we absorb the history of our solitary lives that is eerily alike if we didn’t know any better we could’ve been born from the same womb. He suffered the same abandonment from a faceless, nameless man. His mother had fallen for another man though already being married to a mild mannered man. She self-indulged and brought him to the world without any remorse for her criminal sin.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">He asked me one day: “Wasn't adultery worse than murder in the Bible?”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"I don’t remember," I told him.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Ignominiously marked just as a Judas among his family he wanted to disappear as I that would erase the sins of his mother and his own for simply being given the name of the unknown man. Every single word that seeped from his thin lips became a droplet of morphine, filling the void with dependence of those words: the common comfort we shared.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Too soon those false emotions we put up during those days churned and churned evolving into something scary and all too real.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Too intense.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Oh, how he loved intensity. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">We were moths closing into the flame. Wings blazing yet flying closer to the mouth of the flames. Wanting to be burned, needing to be burned.