affirmation

blue flames gridlocked -
dragons birth - in a cove
of fountain and large trees,
he keeps her bare

like the skin of avenged
thorns, the flames have
aligned to the blast of
a howling galaxy

it is time to bring her alive -
many lovers - but one with
release; she slakes his jaw,
a mutable corpse

organs banish his veins,
creepers coil his residue,
her love intense like heat
in a dragon's egg -

birth is without labour,
she pecks on their shells
the way his teeth fall,
outside is a glow-burst

tower; the candles crawl to
him - ghost lovers - charmed
pendulums dangling over his
body, his skull watches

her slithering to him, agile
like amiable trail of fire, she
of many concubines, his room
of dragons, nymph fork-

tails; their eyes wild berries,
blue streams on smoke-
limbs - the way he comes alight -
they watch as she mounts

First appeared in Ladies of Horror flash project