American River Review 2019 - Flipbook - Page 31
Rishikesh Vilash
“Lettuce, tomato
and olives and avocado—shred, dice and chop
and slice—perhaps some corn pluck too: what to oven
in, what to plot out cold? . . . And, guacamole dip
seems right for Boboli tip meaning serrano,
onions . . . cilantro—a fine thin mince once, maybe
twice—a curlicue perfume . . . tabletop tattoo:
not yet tears, yet sorrow . . . ha’, ha’ i’s ‘ru’: ilu.
‘The metaphorical length of an onion is
two pi over three,’ Munsami claims, ‘six times for
. . . flip . . . the bipolar bolero: point-peel-rotate,
point-peel-rotate.’ . . . A similar sesquiessence
olives beneath a jagged edge: point-press-divide,
front-to-back . . . re-roll, re-grip . . . point-press-divide,
front-to-back. The recursive olive spider web sling
is . . . a Sulphur crystal string; but, the second reverse
sweatlet drop up-sob-shun . . . suck . . . sombersault spring
is a bittersweet Montego Bay mucus mix,
i.e., the browsweat, tearlash dual sep’ration
is a ja’, ja’ i’s ‘ru’—ilu—convergence. But,
the lacrimal epsilon engages best as
onion bits ‘twixt cheddar strips oblongside roma
bix: an omicron cuneiform . . . the Durban
upsilon sim’le ‘vice churning three bean salads
to two Julian stresses meaning something else . . . Ink
rhymes with think, roma with romaine, ‘cause the opp’site
of love is love . . . a Hellenic yeoman par’dise:
Na’, na’ i’s ‘ru’, ilu; ya’, ya’ i’s ‘ru’, ilu . . .
. . . ‘Harpreet’—Munsami—ouchie, the missing pinky!”
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