she was a peregrine & appeared to me shimmering in the primordial morning between purgatory & hell talons like a crucial valve-handle carrying me outside the gaudy dream my heart's vagrancy the latent tendency i had of putting chemicals into my body despite the ugly consequences one man's poison another man's high
now sunlight fractures into spectra wind blows thru century-old oaks becomes tangled in my ******-length blond hair as we march hand-in-hand thru these narrow streets the pinched labyrinth the last dusk light this swamp
she was a peregrine the hungarian turul genteel brown eyes watching me howl at the midnight moon & yip like a fox at the first dawn light now she shares her own breathy yelps with the pillow like fumes of lavender sprayed in a strand of oaks
i know for a fact she has claws she swore she'd never use them to hurt me but sometimes i let her anyway i need to feel those dead fingernails buried in my living shoulder-blades propelling me into a new kind of manhood redeeming my weaknesses weaseling into my shorts pains & insecurities melting like cloud's spit down the windowpane lazy & safe on a warm sunday morning wrapped together in the skin of this gyrating palace
this is no longer casual desire: joni mitchell sound-tracked our first makeout sesh as stars bloomed fat behind a surly multitude of clouds over a tar-colored lake so if you think i'm ever letting her go you're a *******