Transmogrify

What if I quartered you up
Like a grapefruit with my spoon,
Slicing between sweet and pith

As if I could eat one
Without your sour notes pinching
The back of my tongue

What would it feel like
To have me without
This flesh over this bone

The smooth place
Your thumbs rides between hip
Joint and thigh

Finally let’s you
Carve yourself
Into my sunken ilium

Would it excite you
To know you’d finally
Rewired your way back in

Since it’s the way
You let yourself fall apart
That enthralls me

Watching you
Unravel, in chunks and hunks
Of human

Utterly lost
In the wildness
Of raw circuits

I forget who am with you,
And you understand that I don’t
Want to be pieced back together

We dwell in the deep
Waters which have drained us
Of time and sensibility and still —
We wait

For the pickling and pruning
Of clocks to chime
Six times

This is when we’ll know
We’re real, when walls maintain
Their upright position

But it’s only 5 now
And I’m damp, clutching
A wet pile of clothes

The walls blink away
As dark eyes of the storm
Laser my naked skin

In goosebumps
That know you’ve slipped
Back into ether

The night rains come
To wash away the carbon
Of last night’s
Memories

Replacing me
With lost ions
As my clockwork expires