expose the wonder. peel my layers back

with persistence and your forked, silver tongue

‘til light unzips my folds and I lose track

and all control; ‘til hoofbeats pound, unstrung

 

notes sound, in the bowl of my core, the bell

of my temple vibrating, keenly and round. 

peel me with your teeth, pomegranate knelled

and bursting, unleashing all the profound, 

 

forbidden mysteries of paradise

throb after throb unspooling like ticker tape,

grazed nerves flushed with brimstone and god light,

making my body, consciousness, soul ache

 

for more dances with death, more cessation

of breath, more kingdom-come-hellfire-salvation.