carnality

in the carnality, knowledge-state

of enforced recognition

seeing the face which grows

like fruit, from the root

of the shifting fixation

white flour and crystal screens

contraceptives containing

the seed that burns inside

burns

through slag and plastic

the fire from which

the touch of polymer flees

and ties itself, basket-wise

into the imagination

of unity: I do not become thee!

unnecessary step past completion

darkness in which

the spark travails

like the gush of fuel

dying into the inferno

I am:

dead and inert in the midst

of your violence

alive, struggling fearfully

in your sea of confidence

which confides:

trust I am not, not faith

nor fire

I am Wisdom wearing the wise

I am deceit, sugar and oil

on a fool's lips

I am the song

for which the note must die

perish into me

inhale that you might expire

suck through the membrane

of illusion

seed of the fire

core of the star

FINISH