Desire at the Sub-Atomic Level

Desire at the Sub-Atomic Level

is like an onion
each layer thicker
more pungent
than the last
except here
there is no core --
no definite place of being
only waves
of energy
crashing against a non-existent shore
like your mouth
against my neck
leaving bruises I love
more than myself

where is there more violence than this?

the sear
of your glare
reduced twenty-four years of my life
to nothing
but blurry shadow

one look and everything familiar
became ash
bitter and soft
on this tongue
that has split
me a thousand times
releasing a power
I never knew I had