Vox Draft

Or Trance of The Wolf Spider

One

he rips to shreds like her heart ripping
paper. Just a small line of blood, A forest
of trees Pointing up… branches like tangled
veins reaching high: Reaching to the moon’s heart.
Through the fire still flickering green. Concavity
— socket, basin, antrum, crypt, chasm.
We were hunters by the lake. diverting your eyes
from the portrait of the snake in my pocket.
The rocks and shells and glass  dotdot-dot


two

The moon’s silver skin drapes Touch my
hand; I marry you under moonskin’s net.
Secrets of the cave demand loyalty. 
Luau-source. supply, richly plenty. 
Arachnid 
— harvestman spider? 
Kauai cave spider. 
wolf spider. 
some live blind in the dark. 


three

A wolf circles; looping stars. dalliance. love affair, 
flirtation, waiting. Love-making 'da capo' — again, 
over and over, again. Repetition dart darn Evp: 
Rain Automatic nail gun. into the abyss, grotto, 
subterranean liar, Rippled violence. 

Beauty made a killing.

It was said the moon’d rather die than keep them apart.
She waits for his mouth of a greedy night. 
mouth bleeding…
greeting, running high in the sky toward the sea.

Originally published in Bullshit.IST, October 23. 2016

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