To Adore 2

she separates ribs, and disjointed
they make no sense
counting capillaries
to devour nerves they turn to yarn

Bones hold wormholes to
make a ring of splinters
in the center

To Adore 1

The throat is a viral birth canal
pregnant
internal noose of filoviridae
mother uncommon
cold
your lips on spleen
release galaxy hemorrhage
to constellate bones

held head under skin
shifting weight sheets
of adolescent mattress, foreign floor
dreaming
stalk you shoot up odes to love
me
to diary ashes

Physical Phoenix

pluck needle from bare
feet that ran to the desert
seeking summer twilight

porcelain doll in oleander crown
plays (is) passive
while venom lizards sun
bead bodies on stone

she wants to make necklaces of scales
pretty to befriend garnet bellied spider

but there are
sweat dreams of loving one without
bruises, lollipop promises(worship)--
the gravel kisses to clavicle
when eight year pill bug rolls
out and in sun dress armor

broiling playground buried
prickly pear bloom in
mud hair tangles on stabbed leather seat

i left cereal bowls for baby
squirrels growing in storage

child hands held the wheel
for ghost accelerator