Then a slit through midnight
Across collar-bone-wide
Doe-scrapes of red cloth
teeth meeting beyond
meaningless things
legs spread for snakes
What we anticipate
The crossing-into
the being-needed.
*
The being needed to cross
a wide canyon Only darkness
known since birth
birth removed ancient
sac broke into Anxious
ever since Time started
her heart red beetle-tick.
*
One who is sick sprints
toward the split
with knives ready as a mother
To heave away what ails
the mind but what is one
to cut away The anxious
the bleating goat throat
exposed Thoughts darken
the ground What is one
sliver of steal against ice caps
*
Sacrificed mind-goat
instead of her arm
red lines are still red
*
Converse with the hurt-bridge
construct full sentences
Don’t rip a dress or do
because you can Enter what ails
as a herd enters a round-pin
belly full before the blood-let.
*
Then the through-with animal
raised herself braided sweat
around her choke-hold hole
where we came come and must
enter again The last fucked
midnight It begins
*
Broke open in a kitchen
the chicken’s soul met its meat
it had to understand What use
have I ever been No useless
chicken Neck stretched
into its meaningless
mother’s mouth again
*
Bosnia breast-fed her broken
children to death In Texas
one eats a meal before being
light-carried home.
*
Or not The girl refuses
to eat Fuel her emptiness
with sex The men hunt
deer ready for her Now
the blood scent is gone
they want holes
to bury their boys She’s willing
*
Or not Sometimes she’s not
ready for the god
in her The woman carries
knives sacrifices her mind
to beautify earth then destroy
*
The swarmed tribe told the sky
Open It didn’t
The saw prayed No against
The smallest child’s collar-bone
*
The meaningless happened then
turned in on itself kaleidoscope
of color until snakes tails in mouth
made themselves mean something
*
Again dressed Again woman
Once child Now taken in
To a room for money Pain
an energy has to go somewhere
*
The safe-house is not
safe The mesquite hides
tobacco crazed goats
The mind having nowhere to go
invents but forgets.
