Petroleum Innuendo

silver shivering
I taste crimson chocolate
the leaves waiver in the
collision of gaseous words

she’s enveloped in flame

thrice I watched the match
spark to life

against the ridges
of my perplexing life

every time I am wounded
I fall into the pieces of
hopeless memory

the shadows of conquered
fortresses are the curvature
to my spine

I’m a display piece for
time and arthritis
and she’s hypnotic
breathless, eyeless

the storm whistling
threading my fingers
to weave me slowly

back into the flavor

she tastes me
through that velvet mouth
though I’m polluted
she takes not

one decibel out of place
all the quantum
qualifies her as an equal

but I’m an octave lower
masculine potential

once a man among men
a cannibal to cleanse
she places her skin
to my barren lips

my teeth are ivory towers
her hands are elliptical
spreading the sand
that might have ground her
into dust

but she’s aflame
you may recall
making daffodils into glass
boiling off the alcohol
in her margarita

she wanted ether

but without eyes
she couldn’t see it
at all

and the heat of proximity
makes my body
into so much dust

as wounds open in my skin
I feel my own blood
emerging out to rust.