the whole world hums in the V of your shirt
this is where my hunger begins
the day’s rain gathers until we’re swimming in it
a lake of want silty & slow
the rural midnight darker than eyes stitched shut
translates to your folded tongue & foreign lips
these words small enough to swallow
please, peel me open expose me, fuzzed skin & ridged pit
until my insides shine with blood so thick, it oozes black
while grit lodges in my teeth make your hands a shovel
uncover me unbury me
from this cave of sand & tendons from what hovers between
the no & the yes the shutter & its release
held in place even after the camera is lowered
