My hair caught her fingers, and we rebirthed nations
She had lovely catacomb fingers
that clicked on my ears
like hopscotch in a hail storm.
She said love was her gift,
her ability to melt emotions
in droves like wax onto her chest.
She powered on the radio with desire,
rabbit ears listening with intent,
playing static cracks and Etta James
through clouds of marijuana smoke
pierced by her gentle fits of laughter
and the creaking house
Our breath trickled through
the walls of smoke, mixed like oil water,
and I blew my lungs into her chest,
filling her up with life
while groping her like a whore,
pent-up sexual aggression
like compressed air into a balloon
that needs to be exploded with a key
that we share
And so let’s turn the key
Because she is you and I am I,
and Time sucks moments from us,
as quickly as we fail to grab them.
So get up!
as lovers of flesh and sweat
two breathing heaving imagining bodies
melted and poured through
an upside-down volcano made of evolution
to congregate into molds
shaped like the shape we make
when we’re fit together
like one struggling knot
locked tight by shoulders pulled
down with hook-like hands
reinforced by muscles made of lust.
Your ankles cross like an intersection
behind my back, signs up to say
the road is closed with no detour.
Not that I’d ever want to,
but I could never escape if I tried.
You are a black hole of passion,
and I proudly give you my sweat
as our naked chests slide slick
in rhythms familiar to this dance
that we have known well together
choreograph by pure animal
I do anything I want
because anything I want
is everything you do.
And if beating hearts blasted lightning
to power cities by dark dissatisfied
Then our machine would ignite
those dark as death or fiction
Warping time to put history on
a hand-cranked elevator straight up,
as sulfur and brimstone reverse rain
to wipe God out for his transgressions
against man’s holy design
and we feel that time lapse video rewinding
like reels of tape on spools of pleasure, as
Sodom and Gomorrah grows in our stomachs
We shed all control of speech,
and sensation of pain
Facial muscles convulse into tics
quick as stop-motion sunflowers
stereo-blasted by a march of wind
An ocean of waves flow under your back
and lift your spine into the shape of an arch
We countdown as we feel
our bodies begin to empty the burden
of empires renewed within in our stomachs
of gravity reoriented in God’s favor,
raining death back into the cities
as Time crashes sulfur and brimstone
into the view of eyes of salt,
with shaking and screams,
Sodom is returned,
Gomorrah again received.
And now we suddenly perceive
exactly how hard our hearts are beating
to burst our throats.
The Knot of our bodies
falls loose like spaghetti noodles sliding
and our minds flatten out smooth
and uniform like a gentle paste
As we contemplate moving,
we enter sleep as on a morphine drip,
dead to the pleasure of our release.
The radio counts time passing
as it crackles into our minds
through our open ears.
“At last…”

