Into a brittle shell a yoke is growing
Into a brittle shell
a yolk is growing
The golden protein from books
daubed with another's blunt musings
My mouth hosts an odd charm
Folded and Whipped
a different tongue-
like a child weaned from a spoon
Aerobic noises
Cream vowels pouring,
Sounds- foreign to taste
become my own.
Through cold chewing and trial and trial
take and stay
make home
Surrogate
Oh Galileo
with your forbidden science
Poison me slowly
The Devil's creed
Holy, Catholic, Apostolic
and all that
Nail your nails
where you started with your teeth
Am I someone's
sunlit dream
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
Oh embryo
knitted and known
a group of cells
that are not my own
Image of God
Homoerotic to the last
Love me
Subjunctive Thomas
Ever doubting
Diligence forgotten and
wisdom denied
Lost numbers to quantify
love
a small dagger
in a sword's case
Soap on a rope bishop
Soap on a rope bishop
with a gun in her mouth
found alive + well
will spend her death in heaven
As she lived her life in hell
Wrong profession for liberation
Preach the drool of hate
abstention
drill a phobia with the mother's milk
OH HELL, how i forgot you loved me
Opulence carved into her left arm
The church laps up her blood
to pass on
its disease
HIV positive- me
And now the anger softens
And now the anger softens
Like their pretty boys
In their cruel chastity
Run
Like antelope into the lions paws
Gripping, Helplessly- Numbered
Oh Love
You curled up to the world
Before life itself was begun
A bud of petals
Taken and split and spread
What did you see?
What did you see for? Me?
Boy- your insight
has been taken
Your portrait of sin
Is no more blackened
than my mother's mind
Virgin Queen sets sail
