Mouthing Green

Emelia Reuterfors

 

1)

lacewings

flaunt their bodies

on the car hood. how daring

      to open

      when translucent.

silky glands

make stainless eggs.

      night rotations, darling

they shift gears. they sift

     the weak and surface.

 

2)

the red center

pulsed      permissions

a milky shiver for me.

i thought i saw a tongue float

like a cobweb. i thought

a worm had deepened in my throat.

      i heard something grind inside.

i take this seriously

as green-lighted prey.

locked horns, a tickling kind of

fur   is open to attack.

 

3)

what is discovery? teeth

inside and living

soft signatures.

we unraveled our wet

beddings    on the truck bed

glowing through the windshield, breasts divided

      just some eyes

      with singing legs.

 

4)

i hear what i see and it twins;

it halves in drainage,

suckles the earth's

neck, swallows

      my breath. here

is the microbic

green throat

of a throat

swallowing

a throat.