Trails of lace and velvet slides

a cemetery carved into a fingernail

rivers wrapped around the feet

of trapped stone angels

carrying foam boats

of plastic jewels

I am mirrored in magnolia leaves

my veins are poison vines

that climb the highest trunks

to find a resurrected sky

a pentagram is inked around

your deepest orifice

the gilt framed edges

wreathed by sticky spores

and bathed in lakes of sunlit pollen

the roads to ruined towers

are swollen tight against graffitied rails

and drummed by toxic hail.

You be the hot grenade

I'll be the stomach of steel

that catches it

the mouth that exhales smoke

translating fire into speech of many tongues

branches all caressing

from the molten heart

the fevers that make spirits flesh,

up past the barriers of bladed space

far over chariots of darkened matter

and orgasmic information

into blank angelic zones

that smell of broken chocolate,

into the most fertile wound.

All the grime of blown illusions

riding on a cloud of maggots,

inhabiting the thoughts

of a disfigured species,

tearing the sail to shreds

that dripped with captured daylight,

stuck to the hull of reality

with no relief from time.

Teeth on a chain of pink plaster

clicking for an earless breeze.

Corroded walls on limestone

reflections that embroider on the blade

dissection of the ritual assurance

that carried sleepy bones into the grave.

In the curve of winds secured by ghostly circles

the heights of ridged hills

and the smell of cracked rock,

bright eyes are the heat's holder.

The cave cups fire dances

smoke rides a fissure out into the sky.

New blood is paint before it dries.

The bridge of smoke mysteriously retracted

walls that speak through porous images

silk running down a hill of steam.

Ecstasies remembered

in fragments like blades,

sacred without number, lost.

Bronze throne of reverberation

no jewels in sight

the wings of broken gliders

trapped in treetops

banners fluttering with faded history

vines coiling in cave mouths

silver steps to a rancid sun

flaky layers coming off

with quick fried letters

landing on swollen floors.

Bring me a milk lit thistle

alert in a bucket

calligraphy of blood worms

sprayed on the soulful lid.

The light of the sun is gray

on these ruddy brown hills.

I have seen the statues fall,

I have seen them be replaced

by faint projections.

I have seen stone turned to jelly

and men become steel.

I have seen steel become soup

and nations netted hives

besieged by hyenas.

I have seen the lion shed his hair

and the shadows become maps,

rice paper ceilings

for the dwellers of caves

in the earth.

I have seen through planetariums

to the real outside.

Stars go pale with time

the distance rides in

veins of travel

red with battered clay

and living dust.

I retract my symbols

pull my desperate blade from the soil.

This tent of skin

becomes translucent suggestion.

I build a porch beneath my bones

let the forces go roving home.

Rivers on wayward courses

the delinquents of a dying dawn.