its limbs they tremble
eyes terrifyingly dry
heart is autophagic
with wild inimitable logic
a wreck so attractive
like remains of a chewed Roman sole
its passion is deathless
looks around you, relentless
...
unknown speech yet worldly
breathes through porous skin
phonetics whispered to a flame
like horrors of a secret toil
a mythogrammic question
that charts a semblance of lost kin
eyelashes flutter like flamed fronds
it contemplates the lonely that burn out
...
rocking on top of a tree
twigs snap under its feet
a howling that can only give fright
“there is no thing that contains such light!”
make sure to wrap and suss it
in heaps of dried cedar leaves
a human turned savage to right
“make sure to contain all the light!”
...
what it will lose in strength
it will gain in senses, love order
forget how forests think
suffocate dreams of sunlight
its taste for pure water is telling
as rain falls it’s always leaving
crawling for more incisions
the moon is handing out commissions