set in our sap
a room
divided
hung fabric
conceals a doorway
draped to the floor
velvet cold
the weight brushes your skin
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chest first
limbs lag behind
passing more like pushing
trudging through a thick dense fog
your body drags off balance
as if trying to run in a dream
a force repels and attracts
a spindle caught
in a magnetic
field
engulfed into darkness veiled by a vast void
endlessness surrounds you
an unreachable expanse
sinking slightly into the ground beneath you
moist soil layered with mulch and mosses
deep rich earthy scent
damp feathered bark and petrichor
my body standing
a soft glow radiating from my throat
gently illuminating
outlines
ridges
an arm outstretched
i take you by the hand
roots begin to form and emerge from the pores of my skin
growing out from my bones reaching for the soil beneath us
searching
for something tangible to cling to
they unfurl in different directions
crack as they slither
gnarled and groaning
contorting as they extend
our scale fluctuates
oscillating variations
we shiver
tremble through the shift
in our settled form
you sit in my cupped hands
i bring you to my lips
the faint warmth of my breath
satin
flows from my nostrils
pouring down the indentation of my philtrum
cascading
a rain of arrows arching from my cupid's bow
tender labial cushions
a purse of tensile tissue
silken flesh bolsters ribbed by plumpen vesicles
they open for you
s l i g h t l y p a r t e d w i t h p a t i e n c e
you peer inside to reveal my monstrous tongue
placid and waiting
you tentatively tread the fuzzy bulbous buds
that coat the surface of my upper tongue
caged by a border of calcified enamel bricks
timestamped by their striations
forking veins and gelatinous nodules
emblazon the arched vault of my nave
the gritty scratch of friction as the head of a match struck
a hissing splutter as it bursts to life
i set you alight
your body ignites
a blaze that lights up the cavities
folds
crevasses
an emergency flare
swallowed by these walls
you smoulder in a comforting heat
float mid air
your fumes i inhale
disintegrate to conscious fragments
pulling smoke deep into my lungs
your ashy residue a sooty pile on my tongue
i taste your particles
with each exhale there rises a tremor
you descend the canal
follow the hum
resonating from the vertical drop
ahead
tracing the wave of vibrations
pulsating amber light
petrified molten amorphous mass
throbbing
shimmering
beating
drum
webbed
by
taut
stretched
tendons
a hornets nest melded to the rafters
buzzing light particles trapped inside
glimmer reflections
crystalline paradox
paralysing in its preservation
glacial shards formed to shield
hermetical
impenetrable
unyielding
a room divided
thick resin
hung fabric
conceals a doorway
draped to the floor
velvet cold
the weight brushes
your skin
a language smothered
c r o a k s a n d c r e a k s
shadow wisps trapped in situ
contained contaminated
filament threads suspended
linger
mid-stitch
confined in stagnant nectar
seeping from vessels
filling the fissures
a swell in my throat
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indecipherable words
scream as they surface
scorching braille on my skin
scaling my body with its reptilian eyes
i wrap it in fabric to suffocate it more
i build a tower to raise my legs
rope burns sear my ankles
toes electric
stinging numb
passing more like pushing
trudging through a thick dense fog
your body drags off balance
as if trying to run in a dream
a force repels and attracts
a spindle caught
in a magnetic
field
clavicle tight
key strained in its lock
unhinged
threatening to snap
whittled to a sharp point
engulf d into dark veil void
e n d l e s s n e s s s o u n d s y o u
an reachable expanse
i map the space between my shoulder blades
score my skin with sigil
raise the markings by my own hand
let it absorb through my flesh
grasp its breath
exposed
inflamed
sink light in the ground be eat
moist s l it mulch d os e
spill
a cold trickle of sweat
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p eat
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escapes from my oxter
tickles each rib uninvited
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