be / because // because sweat didn’t run off
your forehead and fall between her thighs /
their past is fixation and front-running is //
because shadows taught us to blowback slurs
fired onto the fulcrum / now gentleness
triggers because // when they arc her barrel
back hard he can’t feel them hard-fired swift
reversals front-swinging because // you won’t
run by the bus we lie her in the backlands
fire-black / until his front and the grey in
their words exenterated this / because
handling does because // fired backed in myth
was death / disaster / affront lines tied back
with lies / hardening ties hardening fast //
because stars in burnt morning ray arcane
over cock-tilt shadows scratching / coring
fire-tied / fire and fire-quenching thirst at his
front of the day / because someone else lit
them and seared / my / wick / out / she mined
every breath / twelve years / muffled nights /
but lines drawn in dust just backdated the
blast / now temple the furnace again // and
know // she frayed hard / vast / true / because
you did not ask // be / cause
