the window is clotted

i hold rain in my mouth to keep the flood back.

my tongue is a weakening dam.

walk away before it breaks, & you drown.

my fingers are tornadoes. your cold weather

mixing with the heat rising inside my heart becomes chaotic

and i want to tear your body from its foundation.

*

anger, as black as a hook, overtakes me.

i snag your cheek. you fought, so i hook you twice more.

you want to bathe in the shallow of your apathy

i'll gut your inanity, watch the blood assemble apologies.

your eyes pool & red algae converge, covering

the distance between us. your pupils decay.

*

i craft a vessel from your body: hollowing the abdomen,

i’ll use your arms as ores. i let the water breach my mouth.