wrapped up in
a mythology of
perpetual verdancy
the painblossoms
bloom in blasts
of lavender along
trigeminal dismay
sneding tendrils of
delicious agonies
ravaging swollen
sinal infractions
letters tumble
from a fumbling tongue
a ferocity bathed
in supple ignorance
blue lips hung limply
over chattering teeth
as the birds croak
a devilish dervish
in distorted notes

how i dreamt of this
numbness to sweep over
the absolute everything
so insistent on being
everything all the time
now i poke at the
effervescent swirl as
seen through the prism
where the burning mania
is reduced to strands
of ephemeral lights as
witnessed through the
haze of permafrosted loss