The line you toe has its fine hold. My mindās holding cage
Espies you magpieing in fine gold, blazing. Aztec fire, Prussian shade
Everything has its time and rushingās vain.
āI donāt take wineā 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 pharaohās latest iteration. Thereās no way itās all fucking Wales.
And when you tire, itās 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 donāt have to strain to imagine
Graceful princesses and incinerating dragons
Hair hitched together, tents pitched together. Against predators circling wagons
Iām that type: ālook what the cat dragged inā
Meanwhile sheās timely beautyās primary scion; in and of Eden, fern-wreathed
I can see the seeded earth burning beneath her seething feet
I sign the deedās 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












