Lipgloss dripping candy lacquer aquamarine Wrought silk enfolding shadows of her shoulders obscene Drugstore ribbon laced her feet just as in my dream She reduces me to liquid in an urban machine On the asphalt a virile shellac. Β Power like a thousand ships of industry steel Columns fall to soldiers at the clack of her heel Sirensβ polished poisoned fruit that drives one to ****! A Dahlia's vitality shunted and left to congeal In that pool, then a wave of relief.