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Lilith


There’s a reptile petting zoo just off the city bypass
it’s a simulated jungle in a greenhouse of plate glass
where the heat curdles the smell of rotting fruit and deodorant
as the visitors press up against the rows of tanks

Just past the nocturnal house and the terrapins
there’s the python enclosure built eight feet by ten
where you lay, a coiled ghost, in a plastic basin
water falling on your back from a motorised fountain

I wanted to save you
from what you’ve been condemned
from that finite index we both long to transcend
for they do not speak for us - they never did
and you and I both know that boredom is the true original sin

But our time will come
and we'll shed our final skin
and be free from these bodies we’ve been so long locked in
they’ll see that you were never a snake
just as I am not a woman

And as the horrified schoolchildren look on
we’ll burn like primordial gods
and we’ll tear through the gift shop
and make for the stars
leaving the mounds of stuffed lizards all scalded and charred
and the traffic along the M8 will screech to a halt
as two arrows of light pierce lingering fog
and for a moment the whole world will know what you have endured

Until the ozone falls away like a sheet of cellophane on fire
the oceans boil over and the planet expires
but by then we’ll be careening through that exquisite dark
with nothing discernible in our liquefied hearts
but the ease that is
finally ours.

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from Impossible Bodies, released April 19, 2019

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