06-07-2017, 06:37 AM
silkworms
ask me more than once
why vomit coats my tongue
when the heat makes veins
crawl like slow slugs
and I will tell you
that on thursday
my face extended
to touch every flat wall
that expulsion on the sink edge is alien
and this cloud of hung and heavy silk
once moved yellow and alive
in the entrails of silkworms
that the underbelly of my rimmed ear
reminds me of formation
tendrilled cartilage and baby tendons
in the shock dark
that a creature like a bat encased me
somewhere between january and march
when its skin fused elastic
the folded sharpness of the ridge formed
that the baby is two halves
and in the river
water glides green over itself
its squirming molecules the kissbreeze
that caressed me soft on kelvingrove street
ask me more than once
why vomit coats my tongue
when the heat makes veins
crawl like slow slugs
and I will tell you
that on thursday
my face extended
to touch every flat wall
that expulsion on the sink edge is alien
and this cloud of hung and heavy silk
once moved yellow and alive
in the entrails of silkworms
that the underbelly of my rimmed ear
reminds me of formation
tendrilled cartilage and baby tendons
in the shock dark
that a creature like a bat encased me
somewhere between january and march
when its skin fused elastic
the folded sharpness of the ridge formed
that the baby is two halves
and in the river
water glides green over itself
its squirming molecules the kissbreeze
that caressed me soft on kelvingrove street