+ vampire +

so, kiss me.
please kiss me.

+ on my body, she is +

"so naked for immortal work
his shoulders marched against the dark"

e.e. cummings, my father moved through dooms of love

+ dreams +

she's just like you.
subtle and smoothe
in the
most
delicate of ways.

hammering hearts
and
veins like
steel
weathered over
after the last
of the hurricanes.

she transforms
her scales of distance
into into into
something
so
much
better.

her fingernails
are in the
spice island
hallways.
her moans
sleep sweet
among
the sheets
of something more
romantic
than the
tenderest of nights.

i want to change!
i want to live!
i want to love!
i want to die!
i want to suffer!

and bleed
with pictures of everything
i've ever
desired.

+ in secret +

these golden bricks,
and on them eyes.
this world's mysteries
sometimes
SOMETIMES
have no meaning.

he braids voices
in this shell
i have
smoothed to the side
of my
polluted head.

out of them and onto all of us and into you,
your soul -
such a filthy soul -
none of it.
it can't harm me anymore.

i have the serpent,
and i have his
ruby eyes
and they glint
for you
in those rays
that burn your
melancholy skin
into
dust.

i had a weight
to lift.
it fell last night.
as did your
worth.

you cannot harm me
you cannot harm me
you cannot harm me

we are not two/
we are one/