bloated with wanton desire, i sweat you,
a corrosive man, all tallow and gristle
are you with me? kiss me, charred lips
our lips are charred, tasting the salty myrrh
persisting around your mouth
press me into a bed, a bed soaked in ambergris
rub me down with lacquer—glinting basalt, that is my body
my body glistening and listening to your command
charred, leather, we slip on leather, leather-soaked ambergris
so i beg
i smell your musk, your musk is what i smell
leather, salt, charred, valley-oil, fossilized