Sleeping in the rafters

of smashed heavenly light,

feathered rings clinging

to a copper lattice,

sponges of exploded sugar

tumbling across a pentagram's

nest of gnarled angles

the unheard scripture's metal cover

birth's mouth of centipedes

clenched in foam

like so many steaming commas

two vagrant flames

not yet bereft of anatomy

dancing on the finished blueprint

crooked noose to hook

aligned in the vine's alchemy

shrine's glassy pink ejecting grapes

safe from the fountain of their skeletons

lipstick traces that cracked a stage

interpenetrant fiber optic

flushed radiant angles

the torn clay of wheeling rages

bulbs caged on the water's face.