America

don't make a whore out of her

Animal Shy

signs

lips to suck

bruises

if you aren't human, what are you?

with silk ropes I tied his hands and feet

and began to shuffle cards and mete them out

many cards with many names

many names to come and try

come and try

the raspberry stains and the cracked rib

kegs of men's blood rolling in the bowels of a ship

his feet curl and the floor is made inebriated

there's a carcass out here

out here and in my memory

shafts of skin

a rose white sheet

and he is on his knees and he is on the ground

his face pushed unbelievably deep into the carpet

bells ring, places change, and a sour symphony bleeds the air

and in his ears are thunder showers

and a blood rain

someone yowls like a bob cat

that's a finish

hair is devoured

time moves on

the end is

just out of sight

and in the last hours we are going strong

might make it to the line and cross it

my soul's on fire for it

I clutch my heart

but his skin breaks

it always breaks

s. sparling

scenes apart

dream with with the black drink of sith

nightmares like black orchids sit

still with a sleepy mouths

gaping with genital surprise

unknown and untouched

just a wet 

romance in a tea leaf strumming long fingers

across the great space veldt - stars

magnanimous and stupid

there is only nonsense

and the skull of reason

on a pole

oh my darling I've long loved and suffered

forward like a creature of symphonies

wild and covered in a skin that says

I am of old and cultured beauty

but I hear the sound of unbridled winds

the burst of the golden lung

baby I am looking to the glass

but it's already empty

saint mark and the panther

don't you know your life is hell

raise your spear and let the leaf linger

I don't want for you to cling to me

saint mark you've got nothing but sympathy

and your shield is heavy

rest now

leave that trail of fire forever

she couldn't tell me the way

she had to show me

the chrysalis