a phrase between us  
   

i bite your beard
you holler and wounded, i look into your eyes and
bite again.  acceso.  this time.  you scream don't   and
i look into your eyes again and wounded    barbarous i
again, bird's eye baby             no blood shows it moves

measured, as i do, pushing, incinerate in common time,
this canon      bite scream bite scream pause.

pause.    (this is the romantic round)

holler more.  work the straps if you want, tongue a riff 
sing your voice across the vertebrae, our octaves, the top
c.   sure, i'll  play it      bite    float you
above, ground hard, coda.    

we are movement in this somewhere

into our love, i'll fall

this sacred eyesore nevus, this cratered hurt.

so scabbed and dark,  this righteous indignation
pockmarked broke, and dirty spark.
deformed.

this buckled malformation,

i weeping willow, mounded ash.

adore my venom sweetness,  and paw this brow

of slash.  i'll be your true

annihilate, no comfort

come with blight, i'll be your wicked mercy,

caressing open, reptile bite.

into our love.  i fall.

Laquer me

ours.
you laquered me in tender.
pretty, patient,

holding out.  that doubt would lie
you powdered me in the grit
of your nerve, and the madness of

sunned bone on black.  it was here, it was there
you waited.

ours.

the prowess of lovers

howls promise

cackles fright,
frigid squalling, and you.  liberating,
you dispossessed.

the skin of my protection scaled and
peeled with judas kiss.  the giveaway true failing.