When prayers become
Mute blades
That sing against stone
Fatal forgeries of a throat
Engulfed by hands
The thousand knives of breathing….

Chart the breathless
Rhythm of the body in anguish
Nerves shuddering in the windless void.
Indifference grating and
Dis inte grating.
Music organized in no agreement,
Music of taste and touch,
Tactile intensities,
Language rubbing up against the body’s
Estranged tongue

Rusted moans
Of soul-twisted metal,
Heated contortions that birth
New deformities:
Tumorous multiplication.
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