Sunday 13 November 2011

Endangered

Dragging words in irons,
Italics
Some obscene gesture...
Explicit in rapture
Splits silt of graphemes
Into globules – a mothy warm, splintered.
Hands down the chains trained in
Human liniments.
Veined in shutters
Silkwormed, the conical curve
Lozenge of baby’s ear, crustacean
Hot coiled from a birth.
Beaten, raw-red
Nerve-end, laced up with pills
Drawn out in defeat. The drag of the drill
Struck dumb, that dentists gun -
Wasted. Swapped for two ripe eyes
Vociferous, plumbed
Slimed in a basin
Asphyxiate still, dripping from sky.
Femininity splayed, blazed and blistered
The setting skin-egg sprouting gills
Dragging in androgyny
She waits to rinse that final will.

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