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take me down to the place where my soul
clamors yes to your sterling inquiries-
surfeit-sweet as clover honey and just as cloying.
shut the doors tight, draw the curtains:
where you go,
i will follow.

admire
that which you created, here under shimmering candlelight:
this delicate lunate, capitulate,
the phalanges, spider-long like yours,
the pallour of my skin, the ghostly azure network just beneath-
vena innominata strung through your operating cross.

let me into the labyrinth of your head, your heart-
promises like pomegranate seeds,
the bitter fruit of the Underworld
where devotion is the bitter poison
that lashes swift and deadly at my shattered soul,

stammering
this indelible knowledge;

just a tangled marionette.