Fielded Body, Wild and Hot

Strawberry dawn, warming at the tips of my eyelashes. A cool morning steps across the naked floor toward me.

I part my lips, drink it all in.

False fingered, he traced the curve of my fielded body, wild and hot,

but could not follow the words in the wind of my veins,

which hollows me out like a shell. For I gave him everything,

everything, everything

that I was. And all of me, poetry.

Love is a dagger you plunge into yourself.

And leave it. And leave it.

Elegant birdsong, echo-chambered longing, sifts in over me,

hovers above my starry head in a dreamspell

state of atmospheric inbetween.

She could write a thing that would thread your heart

out through your throat.

And it was heaven wrapped in silken torture symphonies,

extravagant light, falling itself

feathered through trees,

they said.

And in those moments, he was so far away as to not even exist.

Pearlwater tears

the unfaithful

ghostly, wallpaper rice-flower

as suddenly, a quiet mist.

Forests blaze all through my mind, scorched earth dreams,

the taste of the scent of another, darker stains the eulogy,

another, luminous passage –

pages to dust, ashes to brick, love is a glass house

moonstone

curls my fingers in a fist.

The long purple night coils around my wrists.

Snare of love, ambient tryst.

Sharp claw tore into my roseflesh,

pierced my soft-jawed chrysalis.