I clutch the intimation
Of your smile between my teeth
The final bastion crumbling
*
Words are bitter
The discarded rinds
Of a titivated heart
*
Let’s not speak
As if strangers
Let’s kiss and collapse
As if every moment
Were indelible
*
My soul flits
Between spine and navel
A dissident moth
Hunting euphoria
In darkness
*
I want to burn with you
Like an exposed wound
Jagged and irrefutable
My name deepening
With every exhale
A mantra carved
In flesh and sinew
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