The Cave

Human
ribcage

human
ribcage
I’m being watched and seen

What do I have locked up?
Breathe.
breathe
Someones coming…
I’m scared of everything.

I wish bone myself again and again,
let them snap me in two,
make a better woman for this one,
be a better friend.
See who would get the best of me
be a wish come true.

In a dream we make love facing one another under a
yew tree.
My legs lock you into me and the ferny brush of the fronds
drifts over the notches on my spine;

We reel back in time
and on a cave wall there’s the outline
of our hands
the smoke and spark
the elemental tenderness of the breathing dark
in a cavern that
surrounds us
like a
human
ribcage.

Breathe.
breathe
You look into me.

I burst into pomegranate seeds
you shatter into starlings and devour every
pulsing ruby piece of me.
Their murmurations
script out in a
caligraphy of secret incantations
that
the truth
bleeds from the seeds
of this fruit

Shiva keeps on dancing.

And I catch on to nothing
Human
ribcage.

It is not fair how close you perceive me.
And without the salt from your eyes
without your blood in my mouth
and without some strong hand at the small of my back
I am liable to collapse.
You saw the fear within me.

I cracked up what’s been there to protect me.
I tried to snag you on the edge of my own suffering.
So I could taste your blood.
So I can be reminded that you too
are human.
They say god made me from your ribcage
lets say that’s true
Breathe now,
breathe easy
it’s seems I can be spared for now
as I remain a part of you.