a mirror in my mouth

i'm a house of bones. skin stretched over walls

a mirror in my mouth

let your golden rays hit my frozen face

a cataract of sound

let your honey drip from your fingertips

o let me have your lips

your lips of gold of whispering the lips

my gaze spills your blood through the body

each drop makes a coral in the sea

my skin was forged out of seaweed

and out of spit my children grow churning in my mouth