Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Mary

Is all you'll say

at Bethel Israel

2

"Your room smells like cats"

"Your room smells like cats"

Spiraling

Repetition

In your

Bed

Again.

Naked

For no reason

Barely talking

Barely interested

Barely touching

Not fucking

this is dull.

"I love you"

After the pause

Smearing the sweat

into each others

skin,

your fingers

circle my hips

and butt

and clit

Just because you

"missed it"

It's a little awkward

after you come

And we speak love

But it isn't boring

"You smell like home"

"You smell like home"

I wake up

In a room

It smells

Like cats

I'll tell you everything I want to hear

I'll string it around you, in little vines

Twisting around your throat,

Cascading

To your toes,

and falling

Around your feet

in little piles.

I'll pull it light,

Release when you

Relent

Gentle convulsions

to the natural pressures

Of our skin.

A deafening rustle

Your land-locked ankles

Buckling and churning

Distress, sadness

In your dim eyes

A Frenzy of greens

and red

tearing,

Shredding,

The Impossible

Massacre

muttering to myself

amidst your shrieks and convulsions

I have traveled time!

The healthy vines

of summer

Now a deep, mysterious

Auburn

I turn away and listen

As time passes quickly through

You're skin

ode

battles fought amidst lust

planting weight in displaced nouns

spiders drinking my vomit

and mistrust

here's to the way it is now

whispering in corners, exaggerated

nothing

everything is hollow, lost-

is bothering

now,

tears

circling

your

ankles

this is the cost

of the way it is now

train passes

undistinguishable, yet more

haunting,

masked

soaking my feet

slumbering through masses

here's to you

morality

has past

well

who's been ground in

goats and figures

now

spitting his milk

erasing my features

what we were before,

love lingers-

carnivorous and hurt

the way it is now

barely

creatures