For When You Opened Your Cheeks

I was left dull breathing In the windswept tongue, new The fire of mornings halo, dashed And we were as yet unformed For when you opened your cheeks Straw dogs and termites climbed out Seething with hollow grandfather clause And restless declensions about the day We were as yet unformed Claiming car doors in between light The raw momentum of go and pause Hurled toward nubile destination But I knew better than to rescind The fiery crater at my heart's end So I blasted with trumpets the laser Clearing cancer from mind fields Still a sigh as yet unclaimed And we were unformed in tribal bells Taut, with riding around the taurus wheel As streaking clowns plunged for noon