6.
Learning to Drown

break on through
to the other side

to salt a taste
for disaster

I go soliciting
abandon

learning to drown
is what I'm good at

the corkscrew inward
to internal exile

in me my enemy
in my my, in my me

that little purple spot
then red then yellow

at the center of the black
behind between closed eyes

that little purple spot
that solar disk in negative

that bruise that hole
that drain consciousness

leaks out of, shimmering
in the inward spiral

Sexy Death
now I call you

by your right name
don't deny

I clung for dear
life to your dancer's

body, each muscle
supple as a hand

to greet our need.