through a coiled copper tube,
distilled and dripping with brilliance
each drop faceted and radiant
a diamond third eye
winking in the moonshine
a shimmering smile that
dissolves sugar cubes
from a perforated pewter spoon
billowing into milky effluvia
cupped in the gentle touch
of crystal slightly leaded
just to soften against
lips that ever thirst
more with each passing
and are never drained but always
prismatic upon consumption.
with such a long and slender neck
you shall never be emptied
no matter how many times
your heavy bottom rises.
dropping a needle in your concha,
your tympania pierced by a
low gauge through which steel
the caliber of Big Bertha,
bursts with a slight dimpled stretching.
the head now a broken womb
curst with an inequity
poisoned only by the Verb,
which disseminates towards
a grace that cannot
be Earthbound,
has upturned heels so vulnerable
that are held in scarred palms
and are tentatively grasped
and touched in a pledge,
that wordlessly proclaim
a bounty to avoid being
turned over to the flag
that covers those
that bore and kicked
the ass to higher
platitudes & treasons
that shimmer downward,
like confetti laced
with fallout that rains
upon skyclad wooded
forms replete with
nothing but
another
Light twice removed.
You fade to black
Every time, lunging,
Leaving airstrips,
And precipices,
And the scent of
Long nights and
No launderings.
A plea to linger,
Or not, to not
Explode into the
Everyday of the
Everyone, but no
Holding you
Is like pinching
The neck of a taut,
Untied balloon
In trembling fingers
Her weeps made
the sound of
duct tape stretched
fresh from the roll
used to futilely
contain the grief that
poured from her coeur
‘Lest her soul escape
like flies from a swatted
fruit rind and not remain
intact as a beam
to be refracted
to everywhence.
Is it tract, or transit
trajectory, or the impact
that makes this mote
upon my eye?
You make me shiver, Arachne,
Hanging in your web with another
Enshrouded victim, whom you
caress and suck at like
A lover, jetting about his still
twitching body, kissing him
all over, between silver thread.
Even you cannot but help
to raise a leg and shake it in
Ecstacy.
