SAKHI

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THE MUSE BEWILDERS

This evening is a violent riot
of technicolor eyes living
vicarious in I lives, in you
whose sun has traversed its arc of sky,
whose afternoon shadows pale in the window

A winter in effect glistening, remote
& I hear ears throbbing,
the radiation you gave me

a lost beginning

a shoulder blade to cry on

a glowing foetus.

My many hours collide invisibly
& you tend them like breath flowers
to press in your pages of mirth.
If I taste you, temptress
my spinal cord pricks,wings shoot
through my back like wind blowing
through whistles, like a friend
haunting me. Icicles hang over my trachea
when I am spoken to, I bark
like a salamander, I pass out
like a light switch.

I embezzle you
crooked as a storm in blazing hay
when you picture, hear diamonds
invent riddles in a can of worms

When you were a movement, I positioned it
casting beeswax candles of your face
I throw pots the shape of your sacrum
& kiss the coccyx

hardening like my arteries.

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THE ALCHEMISTS FORMULA

I sour mavens
& invent precision
a cut-glass time lozenge
lies sparking, inviting fingers to turn
your marble gaze is opening doors
creatures spasm like hot rocks
in your oral cavity.

Beckon to Aten
roll a naming up like tobacco leaf
even animals dream, my dreams.

On pointed twists of tele-paper
I prompt you
to find the Nautilus.

Leave the veil for the morning
& suppose the gentle beheads itself
or torture on purpose
or Semoan juggernauts
or pink shocking
or cod-piece, my mouthpiece.

Eat 4x4x4 rock-candy cages
sizzle of you
like die, crest
up against a body
baked in pepper
I encrust you.

Sails slap against your face
I harpoon an ant
I send juniper berries to the sun
collapse like an exhausted dulcet
& brown tubers lightly
like sea-salt sprinkled on a snail.