I am acquired taste
I am dirty under nails, fingerbeds, cuticles, vaginalhood,
I am everything that breathes and dies in your mouth
I am serpentine, sanguine, cellophane, serenade
I am soft tender claws on your back,
a cough drop drip
A throat slit
A tongue sucked black
A black sucked tongue
Fierce devotion to your silence
I am barking up your tree, and billow fruit from your limbs
I sit on your sky, fling storms on your forehead
Eat the children from your groin
Sweet fruit ripe rotted in my palms where I suspend all the browns, reds and yellows onto the graying sky
Does this all taste as sweet as I feel?
