Catharsis

Black lace doors black powder asphalt black heart words;

leaf shadows pattern the deepest red.

I'm reeling

in the soundless chlorine chokes/in the ghosts that cut like gasps/in you.

The footprints we filled, now empty

 like salt spilling vanishes. 

Phantoms smothered revisit dark wall labyrinths 

of murky thickness of somatic blanco glitter of broken road imprisonment

tch tch tch.

Behind the glass, craven crawls under the mercury moon howling,

I can't claim ignorance.

So I bare my bones between the neon trees whispering aya-ayalah,

spitting blood and maplememories in search of a colorswirl eternity.

The nails pierce miles of flesh, cord like iron

Azure ripples reflect irises glazed and organs chained

but we dress in sunyellow to create the façade of lightness.