You say “I love you,”
My body is smoke filled glass
Transparent and roiling
You see through me
To my heart
A red-cut-crystal with such fragile
Mechanical birds flitting around its edges
You can see every
Wrinkle, line and fold
Of my nude form
next
to
yours
You put the spark inside me
Held me up to the light
And turned me around and around
Until I was dizzy
Begging for more
Obeying your
e
lec
tricity
Crackling under your touch
I blow out only smoke
A single bird escapes between my breathless lips
My hips roll to yours in time
Your blood-stained hands around my neck
The glass shat ter ing
And still you say
I love you