Gnats in Melee

rollicking prisms shrunk to dust,

breeze-hounded and sex-stung,

a nebula tethered to fire,

sprouted then dismantled,

vibrating with unseen eggs -

a bazaar of breath

fused to a hoopla of slivers -

crazed phantasmata,

rapt fountain of membranes,

airy nucleus of insectoid hydrogen.

this ganglion of swamps,

puzzles and societies,

jitterbugs with sunlight

in scrambling glints.

frogs fixate on the fast hypnosis,

scanning sparks like those

in their own meat -

the fraught marrow of nerves

where instincts lunge like long tongues

tangled in the brain's gut.

these heralds, size of corpuscles,

flickering between dark and blaze,

they tattoo my cheek with boisterous death,

prophesying with milliseconds -

and a vigorous apathy that has no hands,

no uterus, no face -

they sculpt like erosion,

whittling stony miasma,

sprinkling the frantic quartz

over a gravestone of years.

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Dark Touch

we move across each other

like snakes on a hunt,

silky then thickening

like cement, striking

our caduceus pose,

forked to forked,

gimlet-tight,

screwing each other

down, through lewd

striae, down

through buried momento

mori,

ignoring their fatal glee,

following the roosterfish plumes

of hornfels, erupting

into a ventricle hot

with the scent of lava,

that bright iron blood

hypnotized and magnetized,

binding us in an orbit of crave.

how many times have we circled,

splitting apart into ooze,

fusing again-how many times

this recurring pulse

over a dreadful core?

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