Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A candle: presented in the water Shall the boundary: seen before the boundary: lift the law: To the end as may be: to the end as first the fountain of a lower key: the guaranty the virtue behind clarity which I make you: for this where neither dove nor crow has flown: As the now to ascertain, in the yet obscured: we speak juxtaposed: in the juxtaposed: without knowing what wills the ruins. This treaty shall be: this treaty shall be: the boundary seen before the signature: we speak now: the fountain of a lower key: the guaranty: the greater wilt the virtue behind clarity: with bells on his ankles in the margins of story: The treaty of amity, commerce & navigation: the treatise to fortify: in the name of you: through virtue: in the near as you: the wilt which is body: a candle in water With the now to ascertain, with it ever yet: shall the boundary be the boundary not the treaty: we speak the yet: a single candle: where the context exceeds the phrase: We speak the candle: we speak water to announce the end: to sincerity’s calamities: desire the end as may be: with it every yet, as the snow is to ascertain in it: near as you: the ruins where the will is free.
From Museum of the Americas (Penguin Books, 2018). Copyright © 2018 by J. Michael Martinez. Used with the permission of the author.