kelwomack:

As we limped away

from our consecrated vows

bilaterally burned

on everything

with you in your glowing

and my knee near collapse

I saw there, underlined

in a slurry of black asphalt

hot and sticky with everything

how everything became ours

the rusted Volvo, your swollen

labia, and the peeling sensation

against my inner thigh, the arguing

mockingbirds, and the rising sun

even the hummingbird passerby

ours

And we were the same

one.

Blood red in a slumbering tree

Flutter down on the beating of wing

Scurrying in search of seed

Soaring back, his lover to feed

Have you ever seen such timid delight

Darting to and fro for his lady’s right

All at once my senses reeled

A cold wind, thick and choking

A smell so foul it coats the mouth

As it worms its way down your throat

Sitting like a rock in your stomach, lurching.

Death

Rotting flesh hung days past

As a warning to others.

Loosed bits of oily hair

Encircle the open-air grave.

Its once wild, now hollow eye

Staring at a world it no longer sees.

What a world

That hangs a corpse amongst the trees.