Kissing Ecstasy Goodbye

you came undone when you done me wrong your tongue hard with words that shaped your face with lack of grace twisted, snarling angry dog never to lie down near the Master, head to heel and heel to heart crushing wild the red rose its thorns growing on your head into circles of home-bound grass I loved you once my tongue touched your heart these days have passed like diamonds into rust then into the dust of unyielding mouths, we tie rocks to clouds and sighs to sutras, leaping off the page like gazelles on poems kiss ecstasy goodbye, we drink the hemlock of despair, the bane of existence like wolves breathing down our backs, moonlit creatures of moss and stone, we howl.