I want to sink warmly & whiplike into a honey-filled estuary,
for the tide to turn and take me out to sea
& for my ex lover to die of dysentery.
I want to sink naked into the aching shape of you
merging our flesh in white hot fury………
a fusion of perfect rage swimming through smoking thickets
grass wilting in our wake
I want to sink always into barbed evolution &
dress my heart
in shrewd, briny restrictions
slowly ticking over
like a computer working on updates
I’m a medusoid fungus, a spiralling
line of siphonophores………
king of the pelagic zone
restless phenotypes betray a wearied mitosis
you kiss my inbox and I swoon like a swan-diving shag………
muscled with tentacular seaweed
wild and earnest
as our predecessors
the scaremongering enormity of
a sex – changing fish………
Like the kobudai wrasse
I battle in buck toothed glory
for my spawning rights………
reeling in the ultraconservative
fuckers and bashing their
heads in with the butt of my knife
I want to float like scum in a tidepool,
infinite, romantic………
splashing bright yellow cleaner in the toilet bowl
I scrub……… & i think of you
