Boundless terra
folded in the paths of deer candy
with a car key and a discarded shinguard,
love divided and hacked further
by spartan needs
swaggering dispatch of raw labels
grinding a slough for marbles;
marked space deep
outside earth's atmosphere,
yet with a flag on a long spear,
a volcano wreck in glass partitions,
a long but vacant gaze
searching the shells for tongues
and the towers for streaming furs
whipped aristocratic buttocks
and the smell of blood steam,
song script latched
in arabesque pen
around the dark ribs
of the water tank heart.