leopard 8 a salad b4 remembering to pray

melancholy, bereft, arduous siphon
to render each jamb in seduction
lowers the casket in pails of deceit
pine, too thin for the nails
dirt, too lush for the mouth
yer feet are sprung.
halo, slung, spills neon blood.
back to the wall, prehensile tongue,
two-tined, eyes release the wolves
- I'm reticent

treads the center aisle
confessed, confided
cheers, thrown like confetti.
I stayed to clean up your act
a needle to sow yer panty
slid yer days on my tenuous thigh
the born again want fresh plates too
at the brunch skin salad of yer benign
is cloth pulled from the table of faith
to reopen the wound in yer thumb
a splinter for the lamb to pull

the hole in my chest be-dammed