FIREJAW

Tell your soul burn whole

The holocaust evidence of your caution.

Lose hold, effusive faucet

Gnawing, jawing side to side

Like fires sawing in McCarthy’s writing.

What silence sires can knight or defile;

A sir, I rise thereby

Assured that what I’m writing

Somehow blurs assurance, spurns surety’s tidy;

Assured that what I’m writing

Somehow erases the line

Between your mouth and my

House. Spent so long there, spare clock lost count

A cuckoo’s skeleton immodestly vomited out.

Despised yellow my too-mellow spirit

With me, be gentle, whisper

Soft lyrics, learn my

Whiskered kisses, urn my

Old fire. Earn my new life

With fire, blood, rites and iron.

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