god spit you inside me
on a night when the moon curdled milk
I had seen a red sunset in a dream
the light split an egg yolk in half
and you grew in my stomach
I could taste you
tart like pantheistic love
your phantom limbs kicked
half a life into being
wind boiled glass
as I listened to your breath
like wind chimes
on your first birthday
red meat lay on the table
to be eaten
the preacher on the street said
the eclipse of your eyes
echoed the tinny sound of gospels
in a lipless flume
he mouthed:
His sun will burn
Us all into darkness.
scripture says that men swallow fire
like the shadows of
something you work your whole life
to forget
I wait
wait for you to come alive
and forget you again
on a night when the moon curdled milk
I had seen a red sunset in a dream
the light split an egg yolk in half
and you grew in my stomach
I could taste you
tart like pantheistic love
your phantom limbs kicked
half a life into being
wind boiled glass
as I listened to your breath
like wind chimes
on your first birthday
red meat lay on the table
to be eaten
the preacher on the street said
the eclipse of your eyes
echoed the tinny sound of gospels
in a lipless flume
he mouthed:
His sun will burn
Us all into darkness.
scripture says that men swallow fire
like the shadows of
something you work your whole life
to forget
I wait
wait for you to come alive
and forget you again