when i dice warm-tendered skin like a blade to mango exposing sweet flesh and glide cut glass on pulsing veins i feel present again- brought back to earth by fire take a long crunch and the juice seems to drip and stream off the side of my mouth i stay needing more never reaching contentment feeling it stiffen and stick on my elbows like icee syrup a lightening bolt of heat that runs through the sutures of the back of my skull i let out a deep sigh needing to continue needing to go deeper go farther release and resort to a pile of used ribbons loose and maleable and limp like my visions of you