Gabriel in love (1)

a needle of dark jade
entered your heel and worked its way up
through the warm shoals
of your tissue

now it nestles
heart-center
small but so very
pointed in those fragile
rooms of blood

you know you must move
carefully

your nerves are branded
with her steaming tattoo
she herds them
with quick flicks
of her eyes

your nerves approach her
on their knees
asking for blessed bread
and sacred wine.

Gabriel in love (2)

granite tunnels do not scare her
nor does the hot streaking
of any blood

she knows the heft and scent
of the lines by which monsters
track her

her name is insistence
gates open at her will
questions follow her
like locust swarm

she has no need of the ground
beneath her feet
she fears neither cold
nor solitude

she is solitude
and cold, she is blue water
flooding, poison moonlight
in your veins

she wakes the ancestors
of your dreams in all their rage
she raises blue rain
falling black leaves, heavy stars
of white ice

she is bright woven
a straight-flying dagger
and you, Gabriel, are simple fountains
of rainbow blood, mere castles
of fairy-tale pain.

our planet only has one moon

it went full
on a Monday

we sang
three bursting pearl
days under waterfall then
silence

it sailed over us
on a whisper-wail a silver
death song: waning gibbous waning
crescent

I lay still under my cloak
of fading jasmine

you walked alone
in pricking starlight

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