-you blossomed me for a ballet dancer,
palms out and taut,
body stretched like bubble gum
popped
and sticking
(red like her mangled eye sockets,
faint like the heartbeat).
a fevered kiss
for the misdemeanor,
shackles for the felony,
your hands, your hands on
me.
an eye
for the burning
question (smirk/smirk).
you say, come
and stay a while,
between her fingers in my throat,
i remember the last word
(mozart)
like hard candy-
