...

[[ watchful leaving & ]]
.
legs through slit 3:00 am swallows magnificent
others’ good-bye clamor, lids coiled palms
fastened out of beach nests-- ‘stiffen me’
.................misassessment


of:

spongy cerise starch-hued, the lupine
soul--he dances--he discotheques--he
...hides in the bushes like fox-beggar
....with blood on his Beethoven teeth

........momma warned me about
scars misshapen like polymers, dry Mexicans,
Kahlo’s [without knitted brows] deep mauve
.....................toreador jackets--


coming apart in my mouth:

--a stronger determination to taste
--seed pods--unsprung
--menstrual blood nights in red leather
--bloodshot papillae swiftly copulatory
...................... & feverish, this &

........scarcely contained within ourselves
....a moment as wrecking glass, telephone
.......booths naked from the inside, clumsily

...............................he

sex full of quivering notes & whispers
the learned diatonic scale, which receiver
memories dial # [before drowning in
................my own clumsiness]