Deborah Hunt's "La Gris y Babun: subterraneo" | Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

a thousand rats wearing bells / chiming bells in unison a thousand skeletons [caught] in a/the whirlpool ___ balancing a knife on its head [< a ghost / death] death, that butcher, balancing a knife on his head --- and all of us here, waiting [for something / a package wrapped in brown paper.] and when you find the rats eating/feasting on the golden egg,…