You are as cruel as thunder
A warning without
The requisite predation
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I watch your lips tighten slowly
As you draw the air steadily
From my expectant womb
*
In your vacancy
I can divine no mercy
Only your deferential smile
In mutiny of my resolve
*
Long after your departure
I remain, sleeves torn in frustration
Heart relentless in the pursuit
Of aperture
Belladonna
Belladonna strings
Delirium like a noose
Wicked blueberries
Courtesan
A true courtesan
Her beautiful mouth prostrates
On inclination
Suicide
Discarded in love
I drink that I might sleep and
In sleeping forget
I’ve mapped the stars through inversion
The reflection of a deadlocked pool
Superficially favoring a change of course
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This love accumulating over time
Has grown exponentially more exhausting
I suffer from neither contrition nor objection
Only the unshakeable conviction
That “I” as the subject have died
*
So much of your heart remains uninhabited
Immaculate white rooms with no juxtaposition
We sleep with our backs facing, crepuscular eyes
Seeking truce in a bilateral quarantine
*
I find you in the belly of false stones
Unable to extract a single door or window
From your departure, the fireplace
Winks knowingly from across the room,
There is no heat left in her body,
Only hypotheticals
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