beholden to your beauty;
the granite phoenix, the marble hips
the inside of your lips, the ivory pride
the deserted candlelight of
the shoreline's mirrored bride

foundation poured on salt and rain
erected towers of fiery strait
that drown you with their bluest flame

"how deep the under sea hours
in time and stealth and name
how blue the whitecaps fall
echoing with their own weight"

from between the ****** currents
of the breach and petal skin
the black chariots transport
their starless charge held sway
as rose water lips part
the very God's laid within
bared and beholden to this later day