Even the moss between sidewalk cracks / longs for his body. Because he is ruggedly / handsome and home to fantasies
Tinder re-pencils his eyebrows / at the drag queen bar. He's midway / to grubbing his arm around a sequined shoulder
fingers of mycelium entwine, / drunk on borrowed sweetness, / spores whisper in woodland air / and rain down on forest litter.
and we are made one under midnight eclipse / heaving into the night as your heart flutters / and you sink into damp leaves / overcome by your fervor,
An occasional Facebook friend messaged me / to say you were dead. Time went back into itself.
The cost of love is my voice. / Hands covered in oil and release scour / welted skin syncopating along the sheets--
I know what moonlight can be, how to capture it in a jar. / My man taught me how one night when we sat on his rotting porch.
your fingers spidered onto my thighs and underneath my skirt / you had a stale bottle of church water on the floor where my foot crunched it
Let there be the weeding & pulling of grief / Ploughing his heart in the field of his body
There's a way the body learns to outpace / Everything that desires to strip it off blood.
there will be squalls in mayfair tonight — a jazz club, you know, she said, / releasing her thumb from her phoneʼs screen.
Wrapped around her thighs like serpents, / she kneels on a sea of hands.
The weekend accumulated like a stash of dishes / like a cloud of static locked in the box / of a TV set.