I saw the watch glimmer
in your distant eye, knowing
some thing raise as I writhe.
Laid flat, I can't breathe, or
miss a breath in this crysalis
life, cold to hot in shattered
time. If you only knew the
battered thoughts I devote,
the strain of pain I contrive,
the press of weight I hold
tight. Cast your darkness
on me and I'll take you inside
where you've been a bruise
in my flesh, a crush on
my heart, a scar on my mind.

Tonight I lay down, the whisper
of your skin swifts sensation
where I think you, where you
dissolve, where you appear,
where I steal you, where you
eat breathe kill kiss die fuck
scream me. Your reality is
your gift to me, my gift to
you is my restraint. I flicker
where I see you, falter where
I leave you, a gentle lip length
laid like sleeping on your best
hidden warm places. I conjure
you, a dance or undulating
dream distilling me to raw, to
slick, to scrape, to smooth as
death and dawn and deep.