1.
and I wonder -
when it's time to fold into you,
will I open?
will the tears of my old wounds allow you in?
will we entangle ourselves in one another with ease?
will I still be able
to be gentle and gently led?
or will I demand you rough me around,
wilding out the nostalgia
of a hundred million lovers' hearts
and a sweet sigh of satisfactory silence?
on paper we're all a dream
but in the flesh, we're something
beyond this world entirely
my heart aches with the sun that never shone
and the warmth at the centre of me
burns with the fire
of every woman who's ever
melted her ribs into this earth
the sand is a thousand trillion tiny glittering pieces,
and so am I.
2.
I know
I'm impatient
to know you
and I have no idea who you are
I'm wondering about our capacity to melt into one another
when the sun comes up again
- will the forest breathe her spirit into our lungs
and teach us how to sing together ?
or will she sharply dig her branches into our sides
reprimanding our impatience
it's the apocalypse, tomorrow
and I can't wait to drown in the ecstasy of it all
do you wanna come with me to the end of the earth?
it lives between my legs
I've seen it all die so many times
and yet I'm still blinder than the bat
that fed the soup of this whole damn mess
yes, we're on the ark
it's time to drown.
3.
go in there at night
and flesh out the skeletons
sing the bones back on
and don't be afraid of the creature your skin conjures.