bound in a
chemical untwining, like
david slaying goliath, i weaken at the blessed

iiiiiiiiii edge splitting the mind.
for minutes i pulse,
give me

hell. iiiii i can handle it,
inside, my throat &
jowl,

knots jump, my heartbeat
lives between us.
macerate me,

neon— lover blow me
iiiiiiiiii open
piously.

quick, while i’m glowing
red, while the heat lives,
show me— sin,

transfigure me,
until the chemical surrogate
vanishes, i am her, i hold your chaos
iiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiinside,

watch me bloom & shatter
xenolith like. find what you’ve been looking for.
you can hurt me, iiiii a little more now, with every inhale i
zephyr like the old gods. beat me— windless, beat me— till the bottle empties—

Zack Lesmeister