Hell Mouth

The rain between us… my words fall to pieces angled beyond the listless dawn new frost cutting skin to ivory blue vein delicate as coral rib and sea feed into the flesh of memory back to earth before the chaos took its seed and woke the universe into fire the sky, unheeded stretches into angry blue and we are conscious enough to feel human to break our gods into ember breath held like a storm scattering shadows upon the strangeness of us a cold deep blood thick as ocean now, ensnared by the light we move in haste where the diffusion of space is a dark, sweet tumbling of youth caught in the stillness of streams granite fed cooled upon our lips weighed in droplets bright ritual born lion and angel those shapes of clouds bent around the sun once tangled and motionless wrought from desert waterless trembling now in silence like penny blacks bursting to life