Shameful

pilloried in crushed mint
killing with a push pin
sand in eyes
vaulted in the deep rain
salted heart and mud stains
and baptized
c: semaphore sunrise
arthospore moons above this room
all of our pleadings
all of the noons and butcher’s brooms
shameful the hiding
painful the toxic fumes
sleeping under bloodsheets
dreaming of her nervesweets
and her skins
memories in floodlights
orchids in a fistfight
no one wins
now it begins
c: semaphore sunrise
arthospore moons above this room
all of our pleadings
all of the noons and butcher’s brooms
shameful the hiding
painful the toxic fumes
break
c: semaphore sunrise
arthospore moons above this room
all of our pleadings
all of the noons and butcher’s brooms
all of our sighing
all the immune and fauve monsoons
shameful the hiding
painful the toxic fumes