Maidenhair’s Treason

I. Are you the one courting insanity?

Teasing it 

Taunting it

Spoon feeding it Uni,

Language, and Spines

In my sea of inculcation?

Tell me domestic: Can you catch the rolling urchin in your maw like I can?

Tongue piercing the inkling 

Mandible fractals in your arms

Are you ready to devour God?




II. Collect snake teeth in the rib bone of your apron

Like a housewife 

Like a handmaiden 

Don't let them taste your sedition

Shove the blemished ivory in your gums and snarl

'Til you’re bled to a female eunuch

Bite the 7 heads off starfish 

Stinging jelly swirling in their wake 

You will be paid in blemished kosher salt tears 

Still subservient to the seadragon

But you must learn to smile like I can

Grow ginkgo from your bleeding throat

Your tongue choking on deliverance’s roots

Dying a flowering breath

But dying free