The line you toe has its fine hold. My mindâs holding cage
Espies you magpieing in fine gold, blazing. Aztec fire, Prussian shade
Everything has its time and rushingâs vain.
âI donât take wineâ she pointed her anointed knife toward my rushing veins.
Cold, grim and frostbitten, throat-focused. Ice-lipped, vice-committed, some Russian vein.
You are plainly some unlately pharaohâs latest iteration. Thereâs no way itâs all fucking Wales.
And when you tire, itâs OK, go
I have learned to survive on dayglo scraps, plastic and shards of glass
Like some abyssal vent-sucker, way down deep in the bath: Cthulhu Fhtagn.
I donât have to strain to imagine
Graceful princesses and incinerating dragons
Hair hitched together, tents pitched together. Against predators circling wagons
Iâm that type: âlook what the cat dragged inâ
Meanwhile sheâs timely beautyâs primary scion; in and of Eden, fern-wreathed
I can see the seeded earth burning beneath her seething feet
I sign the deedâs terms like a world defeated; she makes forever seem fleet
She makes wherever heavenly, and puts to rest my seeking.
She is sent. She descends. Her good sense wends
Two threads, we take either end and tied them together, tight as friends
I the scentless who cannot end a sentence without her breathless mention
Am wreathed in the heady breath of her spring wreath censer












