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We slithered beneath
a cathedral of beech-fleshed Nephilim,
their synaptic boughs brooding above our thrifted Chevy
like spires of Babel-
Ether held.
Quiescence shackled.
Static wraiths of neural tonic and THC
jolted through our nerves-
jaw locked at the damp root.
Breath bound.
Once we were spewed from the verdant lattice into the glaring grey open,
wheat tides unfurled across the plains-
furnace-lit glades breathed.
Moirai cut.
April's breath, glassy as my marble-floored gaze on gloaming's edge.
Your earlobes-gemstone suns set in Sheen's trinkets-
swayed as we drifted through liquid swells-
The engine stirred
in the fume-thick sanctum
of tacit confessions and broken plans.
We, Janus-mouthed hyenas,
chattered everything, everywhere, all at once-
trying to claw a life beyond instinct,
since our son needed a language not built from blades.
Our son, a slumbering barque at anchor,
hull pressed to polyester,
tilted in his car-seat,
dreams drifting afar.
Eros' milk calcified into bone.
You crept, ivy,
through the map of my heat
in the dark-geometry without boundary,
as though I was shaped for the eve we seep.
I was trellis
to wisteria twine-
the bind that held-
palms pressed to wall,
eyes spasmed-
azure crescents
melted into treacle-
salt rising from throat.
All mothers, piranesi-bricked into themselves,
releasing their locks.
The changeling's kingdom you cage
was never beyond saving-
after the keys, after the release,
there is a trace in us they cannot name.
Day Zero.