Dusk after sultry dusk you brood in the window
\n\u2018For the air\u2019 you say but we both know
\nIt\u2019s for the darkness.<\/p>\n
You flash to the thundercrack of my horses
\nMy arm hard across your stomach wrenching you breathless
\nAll the way down.<\/p>\n
Your mother wept for your virginity
\nWhile you wept for the narcissus that slipped
\nunpicked betwixt your fingertips.<\/p>\n
I fed you what your mother could not kill:
\nRoots and bulbs and the business end of my insurrection
\nYou choked them all down.<\/p>\n
You are not gentle ever since –
\nYou held the arils in your mouth
\nRolled them between your teeth.<\/p>\n
You choked them all down.<\/p>\n
I spat you back up
\nAnd now you rue your cursed freedom and garish fruits from trees
\nonly your mother could love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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